logfile name different each day

[Francis J. Lacoste]

On September 16, 2005 07:40, Mikael Kermorgant wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have setup a syslog-ng server (debian sarge) which creates one file a
> day. It's an easy way to archive logs as they are put in a directory like
>
> /logs/2005/09/15/syslog-2005-09-15.log
>
> However, how can I configure lire to read the good file each day when I
> actually have a line like this in my config file :
>
> logfile=/var/log/messages.0
>
> I use lire version 2.0.1-4

If you use the lire(1) command to configure your cron job. The log file 
parameter in ImportJobs interpolates strftime(3) substitution characters.

In your case you would specify the log file as:

/logs/%Y/%m/%d/syslog-%Y-%m-%d.log

You could probably do the same thing in the lr_vendor_cron config by 
interpolating the date command:

logfile=`date --date yesterday +/logs/%Y/%m/%d/syslog-%Y-%m-%d.log`

Francis J. Lacoste

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