swiftrotate

Adventures in Logrotate and swift.

• prerotate.py - Utility script which datestamps a collection of files that have been logrotated, but were rotated without dateext.
• swiftrotate.sh - Script to add to to logrotate.conf postrotate.
• .swiftrotate.example - Contains example configuration values required by swiftrotate.sh

Just add the full path to swiftrotate.sh to the postrotate directive.

Example logrotate configuration for fail2ban:

/var/log/fail2ban.log {
    daily
    rotate 4
    dateext
    compress

    delaycompress
    missingok
    postrotate
        fail2ban-client set logtarget /var/log/fail2ban.log >/dev/null
        /usr/local/bin/swiftrotate.sh
    endscript
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    }

Force logrotate:

	sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate -dv --force /etc/logrotate.conf