How to specify date of yesterday in Log Import section?

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

Op vr  2 mrt 2007 om 06:23:11 +0300 schreef Alexei Korobkin:
> 
> Sorry for easy question, I can't find an answer in Archives or in man 
> strftime.
> My firewall logs are gzipped daily and path to them looks like
> /var/log/fw/2007/03/02/firewall.log.gz
> 
> I want Lire to run in the morning, parse yesterday log and send me the 
> report.
> But I can't think of how I could specify this path in lire interface, in 
> strftime format.
> 
> Could someone provide me with an example, or it is simply impossible within 
> config.xml
> and I have to use my own cron jobs like
> lr_log2report firewall /var/log/`date -d '-1 day' 
> +%Y/%m/%d/`/firewall.log.gz
> ?

Using such a cronjob would surely work.

For config.xml, can't you convert current time to number  of  seconds
since the Epoch using %s, subtract 24 \* 60 \* 60 seconds and convert
that to %Y/%m/%d?

Bye,

Joost

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