On 02/04/2016 04:01, lee wrote: >> It depends. There are options to tell logrotate to use, or not use, >> > dates in the new filename, and what compression to use or not use. So >> > the names can vary. > Exactly, and that's why there needs to be some sort of place holder for > the file name. >
I don't think it's a case of "there needs to be". I think it's more a case of "you want it to be to solve this special problem you have", and perhaps the logrotate maintainer doesn't agree. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com