Re: Logrotate postscript not able to find just-compressed log

["Ian Stevens" <ian@phantomfiber.com>]

> If this is the case, will I have to compress the just-rotated
> logfile in the postrotate script if I want to copy a compressed file?

The answer is probably "yes".  The following rule works on an
uncompressed file:

/var/log/phantom/phantom.log {
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 52
        copytruncate
        compress
        nodelaycompress
        create 644 tomcat4 nogroup
        postrotate
                if [ -e /var/log/phantom/phantom.log.1 ] ; then 
                    scp -Bq -i /home/phantom/.ssh/id_rsa
/var/log/phantom/phantom.log.1 foo@bar.com:log/phantom-`date
+"%Y-%m-%d"`.log
                fi
        endscript
}

The uncompressed file does not appear after logrotate executes, leading
me to believe that logrotate takes the following steps:

	1. prerotate
	2. rotate
	3. postrotate
	4. compress

ian.