logrotate naming of files by date

[Matthew Hall]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 11:41 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> Is there possible to make logrotate name the files by date? We'd like to
> keep archives of logs named as yyyy-mm-dd.

You might be able to do this quite simply with a 'postrotate' script
(check 'man 8 logrotate'). You could do something along the lines of:

postrotate
	date=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
	mv /var/log/mylog.1.gz /var/log/mylog-$date.gz
endscript

Hth,
Matt
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