Problem with logrotate

[dino]

Hello,

I update the stats of awstats by a script launched with logrotate:

/srv/www/default/logs/*log {
    rotate 7
    daily
    olddir logrotate
    sharedscripts
    prerotate
      /usr/lib/awstats/genstat.sh
    endscript
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

But when my logs doesn't need to be rotated, logrotate doesn't launch the script.

How can I be sure that my logs are rotated everyday or that my script is launch even if access_log and error.log are not rotated

Dino

[Andre]

Hi Dino,

I would recommend to launch your script with a cronjob, because logrotate will only run when necessary (and doesn't really relate to stats). To do this, use:

crontab -e

Then insert a line with:

0 0 * * * /path/to/script

That will launch your script every day at midnight (server time). Make sure that your script has execute permissions.

[dino]

Well... the script update the stat and build static pages. I don't want to build the pages two time per day, the days that the logs are rotated.

For this solution, I should create a script that just update the stat before the logs are rotated.

[dino]

Hiya,

Just see that there is already one program for updating all awstats conf: awstats_updateall.pl. The conf of logrotate for httpd look like that now:

/Path/to/apache/logs/*log {
    rotate 7
    daily
    olddir logrotate
    sharedscripts
    prerotate
      /Path/to/awstats_updateall.pl now -awstatsprog=/Path/to/awstats.pl -configdir=/Path/to/conf's directory
    endscript
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

And I launch the script to build the pages with cron.

Thanks Andre,

Dino