logrotate suffix: dateext + rotate

Question

Is it possible to use dateext and rotate options at the same time?

config must look like this:

/var/log/verybig.log {
    monthly
    size=100M
    dateext
    dateformat .%Y%m
    rotate 5
    create
    missingok
    compress
}

and i must get:

/var/log/verybig.log
/var/log/verybig.log-201408.1.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201408.2.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201408.3.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201408.4.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201408.5.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201409.1.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201409.2.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201409.3.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201409.4.gz
/var/log/verybig.log-201409.5.gz

But now with this config, logrotate's debug tell me:

destination /var/log/verybig.201409.gz already exists, skipping rotation

Look like logrotate can't get multiple suffix-options, but maybe I just bad man-reader.

Using day in date format is workaround and I will not get format I want.

score 18 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 02 '14 at 18:50

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You can use "date" as a suffix of the rotated file:

dateext dateformat -%Y-%m-%d-%s

edited Nov 02 '14 at 18:50

Nahuel Ianni

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answered Nov 02 '14 at 18:29

sfab

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This works by adding the seconds to the date, in order to make the filename unique. So far, it has been the only way I've been able to get multiple rotations per day working correctly. – Jason Denney Jul 11 '16 at 22:27
And there is no ability to get %H%M%S (hours, minutes, and seconds) as with `date`. Only %s - seconds since 1970-01-01 (unix epoch ). – kyb Jun 18 '18 at 09:15

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 02 '15 at 14:35

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You can use "date" as a suffix of the rotated file:

/tem/messages {
    rotate 5
    daily
    compress
    dateext
    dateformat -%Y-%m-%d.log
}

result： messages-2015-04-08.log.gz

edited Sep 02 '15 at 14:35

Sam Hooke

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answered Apr 08 '15 at 06:58

Leo

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logrotate suffix: dateext + rotate

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