Log rotating script, need help!

[earthicle]

Hi

I'm new to this and having a difficult time grasping how to write this script.

What I need to do is write a script that will stop a webserver, move/rename the log files, restart the webserver, and then compress the log files. On the 1st of the month, take the previous months daily log files and put them in a tar file named with the month and year.

So far, not looking good.

#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/apache2ctl stop
sleep 3
mv /var/log/apache2/access.log /var/log/apache2/access.log-%m%d%Y
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl start
sleep 3
gzip /var/log/apache2/access.log-%m%d%Y

Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks

[kakariko81280]

Hi there,

Do you know apache make a log rotation utility?
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/pr...otatelogs.html

Is there something specific you need that this won't do?

Let us know how you get on.

[earthicle]

Thanks for responding

I've heard of the log rotation utility, but unfortunately I don't have the option of using it.

What I'm really having a difficult time figuring out is how to: at the first of the month, take all the previous months daily log files and put them in a tar file, named with month/year.

It seems like it should be fairily easy but I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around it.

Any suggestions/scripting know how?

Thanks

[kakariko81280]

Hi there,

I'm not sure where exactly you are having trouble, but you'd most likely want to schedule the job with cron, and you can find files modified within a set number of days using "find -mtime <days>".

We would be able to help you more exactly if you could explain where exactly you're having problems.

Let us know how you get on.

[atreyu]

What I'm really having a difficult time figuring out is how to: at the first of the month, take all the previous months daily log files and put them in a tar file, named with month/year.

Hi,

Why on earth can't you use a logrotate program? In addition to Apache's rotatelogs, there is also the more generic logrotate facility. It controls the logging of various daemons on Linux systems. Here is an example of the logrotate config file for Apache (/etc/logrotate.d/apache2) on my system:

/var/log/apache2/*.log {
        weekly
        missingok
        rotate 52
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 root adm
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null
        endscript
        prerotate
                if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
                        run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
                fi; \
        endscript
}

Anyway, I'll assume you can't use that logrotate program either.

So here is an example of what you want to do, as a simple Bash script. Try it out. Note that it deletes log files after it tars them up. If you don't want it to do that, remove the --remove-files argument from the tar command near the bottom of the script. At the top of the script, you'll want to set the variable for the dir containing tarball (tarballdir) and make sure the variable pointing to the directory for apache log dirs (logdir) is correct.

#!/bin/bash

end(){
  [ -n "$restart" ] && /usr/sbin/apache2ctl start
}

trap end EXIT

# define the dir where tarballs will get made (don't use the logdir!)
tarballdir='/tmp'

# define the dir where apache keeps the logs
logdir='/var/log/apache2'
if ! [ -d "$logdir" ]; then
  echo "$logdir: No such directory"
  exit 1
fi

# see if the first of the month
if [ $(date +%e) != 1 ]; then
  echo "Not the first of the month, goodbye"
  exit 0
fi

# generate a list of files in the log dir
declare -a logs
logs=($(find $logdir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%f\n"))
echo Found ${#logs[*]} files to tar up

# quit if no files to tar up
[ ${#logs[*]} == 0 ] && exit 0

# tarball filename
tarball="${tarballdir}/apache_logs_$(date +%m-%Y).tar.gz"
if [ -f $tarball ]; then
  echo "Tarball $tarball exists, refusing to overwrite it"
  exit 1
fi

# see if apache is running
pidof httpd apache2 >/dev/null 2>&1

# if running, stop apache
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  restart=1
  /usr/sbin/apache2ctl stop || exit 1
fi

# tar up the files
printf "Tarring up files in $logdir ... "
out=$(tar --remove-files -C $logdir -zcf $tarball ${logs[*]} 2>&1)
rc=$?
if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then
  echo OK
else
  echo FAILED
  printf "$out\n"
fi

exit $rc