Bash script log rotate

[Skillz]

Hey guys,

I am having a difficult time with rotating logs on my game server.

I just want it to rotate a log, but I want it to make the new log with the date in the name. This is the command I am using.

cp log.log log.1.log

What I want it to do is

cp log.log log.[date].log

So that it it wont just over write the log.1.log file each time it has to rotate.

[Skillz]

I think I got it.

I delcared the DATE at the top of the script like so;

DATE=`date | sed -e 's/ /_/g' -e 's/\:/_/g'`

Then added it as part of the log name, like so;

cp gsconsole.log ${DATE}.log

Now it seems to create a new log file each time the server crashes, the is based upon the time it crashed, so the logs will never be lost.

[secondmouse]

As an alternative way to get the date string, you can use command tr to simplify things a bit
date | tr ' :' _

[AdmiralBeotch]

Make your own date format:

date "+%Y%M%d-%H%m%S"

try "man date" for more date codes.

[Skillz]

Thanks for the suggestions guys!