Re: Put date on log file names?

[Timo Boettcher <spida@spida.net>]

Hi!

* vr <debian-user@iotk.net> wrote:
> I'd like to have the date in the file names so visually I'll know
> what span is in each file.
>
> Can this be done? (put dates into the file name)
Depends. See the other posts about logrotate
> Should this be done? (put the date into the file name)
No clue

> If you're doing something like this already, how did you do it?
I am logging to syslog (the protocol) and replaced syslog (the package)
with syslog-ng. syslog-ng can be configured to do this:

destination df_syslog {
        file("/var/log/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/syslog"
        template("$ISODATE $HOST $MSG\n")
        owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(yes));
};

This is a snipped that configures a file in a directory-structure matching
the hostname and the date (you should be able to guess the details...)

http://www.syslog.org/syslog-ng/v2/ has some more examples.

 Timo