logrotatewin doesn't rotate well with %s dateextension

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logrotatewin doesn't rotate well with %s dateextension

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: perditi0n2002

Created: 2015-10-15

Updated: 2015-12-18

perditi0n2002 - 2015-10-15

Hi everyone,

I'm interested in rotating a log file with a date extension so that it can be rotated more than once a day. For example the log named debug.log would be rotated thusly:

debug.log-2015-10-15-213412312.2135.txt

The 213412312.2135 is the %s which is a variable of dateformat (it represents seconds since 1970). The reason I want the %s in the dateformat is so that the same log file can be rotated more than once a day. Using %Y%m%d would allow only daily rotation. I configured the rotate value as 3.

When using dateformat -%Y-%m-%d-%s.txt the log isn't rotated, it's created but not rotated. I've also tried removing the -%Y-%m-%d- part so that it is only %s. The number of logs created is more than the number configured by the "rotate" parameter. I was wondering whether or not this is a bug and if so is there a workaround.

I'm using the latest version posted in this forum (0.0.0.16).

Thanks for your help,
Mike

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perditi0n2002 - 2015-12-18

Hello,

Is there any news regarding this issue?

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