Logrotate Tip

Just a quick tip: I keep a bunch of virtual hosts on my web server under /srv/<hostname>, where each virtual host has an htdocs and a logs subdirectory for static content and logs, respectively. I want logrotate to catch and rotate those logs, and as it turns out, logrotate handles a stanza like this exactly as you’d hope:

/srv/*/logs/*.log {
        weekly
        missingok
        rotate 12
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
             if [ -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ]; then \
                invoke-rc.d lighttpd reopen-logs > /dev/null 2>&1; \
             else \
                /etc/init.d/lighttpd reopen-logs > /dev/null 2>&1; \
             fi; \
        endscript
}

One configuration stanza catches all of my virtual hosts, I don’t need to remember to change it when I add or remove them.