On Fri 13 Mar 2009, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Thu 12 Mar 2009, Paul Martin wrote:
> >
> > The name of the file rotated is passed as an argument to the script.
>
> Hmm, I thought the unexpanded string was passed, e.g.
> "/var/log/apache2/*.log", not the individual filenames.
> I'll test this tonight.
I've confirmed that my suspicions were correct;
again I find that running the postrotate script 10 times for
10 different logfiles, each time with the argument exactly:
"/var/log/apache2/*.log"
is not useful at all...
I've also discovered that the postrotate script is run for each
expansion of the pattern given, even if the logfile was not rotated
(e.g. due to "notifempty"). This is contrary to the manpage, which
states:
nosharedscripts
Run prerotate and postrotate scripts for every log
file which is rotated ...
...
postrotate/endscript
The lines between postrotate and endscript (both of which
must appear on lines by themselves) are executed after
the log file is rotated. ...
I suggest the following changes to the text:
"every log file which is rotated" should be "every log file which is
handled, including empty ones with the 'notifempty' directive
active"
"after the log file is rotated" should be "after the log file is
processed, even it is not rotated due to being empty which the
'notifempty' directive is active".
Similar changes may be necessary to the other script segments.
Paul
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