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Kendrick
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Joined: 31 Oct 2010
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 Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:10 am Post subject: Logrotate config issue. |
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I am trying to get logrotate to use 7z as the compression utility. I have tried to use various settings in the logrotate.d/ files i am not able to get it to run properly.
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weekly
compress
size 100M
missingok
compresscmd /usr/bin/7z
compressoptions "a -t7z"
compressext .7z
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript
}
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Stu_28
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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7z is an archiver, like tar, not just a compression utility. So, part of the command is the archive name--`7z a somearchive.7z filenames`. But, logrotate is expecting a simple compression utility--`gzip filename`. If you want the files compressed using the same thing 7z does, use xz instead (app-arch/xz-utils). Something like this should work:
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/var/log/mail.* {
weekly
compress
size 100M
missingok
compresscmd /usr/bin/xz
compressoptions -9
compressext .xz
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript
}
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Kendrick
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Joined: 31 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| that was the info i needed I modified p7zip script with the remaining settings and now 7z works great for logs. /usr/bin/p7zip and set the extension. for what ever reason I was getting errors previously from p7zip adding the extra type and such options made the difference. |
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