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In a setup very much like: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/ExtendingPrivilegeSeparation I have logs located in /var/weblog/<domain>/error_log

I would like to use logrotate to rotate these logs 50M, gzip the rest, and keep 5.

Instead of repeating the same section over and over again, I'm wondering if I can use something like:

/var/weblog/*/error_log {
    missingok
    rotate 5
    delaycompress
    compress
    size 50M
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /opt/bw/sbin/bw_apachectl.sh reload $1
    endscript
}

to match the domain and use it in the script.

Mina Galić
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I think the logrotate.conf man page answers this question quite nicely.

larsks
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    No, I didn't. My system doesn't have a `logrotate.conf` man page. I did however read `logrotate(8)`, and it does not answer my question. There does not seem a possibility to do it. With `logrotate`, anyway. I was hoping for an answer of the kind "No, you can't do that with `logrotate`, but you can use `zomgwtf`," or: "Yes, you can do that with `logrotate`, using this little patch" ;) – Mina Galić Jan 27 '11 at 13:47
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    I think you'll find that appropriate man page is available online, too, and does answer your question. Cheers. – larsks Jan 27 '11 at 15:09
  • This is the source for `logrotate.conf(5)`: http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/logrotate/trunk/logrotate.conf.5 -- it appear the answer is no. Which is why I've been looking into the source to add the feature – Mina Galić Jan 27 '11 at 15:26
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If you zap sharedscripts, you will get one full path to a logfile at a time -- your shell script for restarting the service would have to extract that one path segment on its own (the $1 is not just the part that the glob ate up)

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