Logrotate: Run postrotate script with rotated file

Question

I'm rotating log files with logrotate with copytruncate, and I need to run a script with the new filename as argument. I understand I can use $1 within postrotate, but that gives me the name of the rotated file - not the one with the date extension.

So basically I have:

/var/log/myapp/server.log

When I run this logrotate config:

/var/log/myapp/server.log {
  copytruncate
  rotate 1008
  dateext
  dateformat -%s
  create 660 syslog syslog
  postrotate
    python3 /opt/myapp/test.py $1 > /dev/null
  endscript
}

I get

/var/log/myapp/server.log <-- (now empty)
/var/log/myapp/server.log-1536844088

Can I run a script on /var/log/myapp/server.log-1536844088 in postrotate somehow?

Answer 1

It's my understanding that logrotate will pass the name of the log file to the script in postrotate; you could use the script and the first parameter and the knowledge that logrotate has created rotated files using the -%s dateformat to generate a list of those files:

import sys
import fnmatch
import os

for file in os.listdir(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[1])):
        if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, os.path.basename(sys.argv[1]) + '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'):
                print(file)

This is my first python script, so it may not be idiomatic, but hopefully shows the idea. The fnmatch() function uses a glob that should cover you for several years (until late November of 2286), when 9,999,999,999 seconds will roll over to 10,000,000,000. You could "widen" the glob so that it "just" requires "10 digits and then anything":

...
if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, os.path.basename(sys.argv[1]) + '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*'):
...

Answer 2

You could add a suffix to your dateformat -%s, like X, then you should be able to find a unique file *X and after renaming it without the X, hand it to your python:

dateformat -%sX
postrotate
  for f in *X; do mv "$f" "${f%X}" && test.py "${f%X}"; done
endscript

I used a for loop to make it a bit less fragile. You may need to check this passes through your /bin/sh correctly.

Answer 3

from man logrotate:

Normally, the absolute path to the log file is passed as the first argument to the script and the absolute path to the final rotated log file is passed as the second argument to the script.

I think you just need to check the second argument.

Answer 4

postrotate
  python3 /opt/myapp/test.py $1-`date '+%Y%m%d'` > /dev/null
endscript

This will work as long as it's run the same day.