#!/bin/bash ## Simple logrotate script ## http://superglue.it | Danja Vasiliev, 2014 ## ## Takes filepath(s) as argument: ## logrotate /www/access.log [/www/error.log] [/www/admin/admin.log] ## backlogs to keep _ROTATE=7 _DATE=$(date +%d.%m.%y-%H:%M:%S) _LOGS=( $* ) function err { printf %s": "%s"\n" "$(basename $0)" "$1"; exit 1 } [[ -z $_LOGS ]] && err 'missing input file' [[ ! -e $_LOGS ]] && err 'input file not readable' for _FILE in ${_LOGS[@]}; do ## get number of backlogs and purge unwanted _N=( $(ls -1 -r $_FILE*.gz &>/dev/null || echo '') ) [[ ${#_N[@]} -gt $((_ROTATE-1)) ]] && rm -f ${_N[@]:$((_ROTATE-1)) } ## compress and move gzip -f $_FILE || err 'failed to gzip file' mv $_FILE.gz "$_FILE"_"$_DATE".gz || err 'failed to rename archive' done exit 0