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godo
godo

Reputation: 335

Syslog and daily files in C

I configured /etc/syslog.conf:

local0.debug /custom/path/log/app.log

so that syslog logs to a custom log file.

openlog("app", LOG_PID, LOG_LOCAL0);

Now I would also like syslog to create a different file each day, e.g.:

/custom/path/log/20210204_app.log

/custom/path/log/20210205_app.log

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 312

Answers (1)

guser
guser

Reputation: 296

Use logrotate and configure /etc/logrotate.d/apt with your file and policies. Something like this would do the job.

/custom/path/log/app.log {
  rotate 12
  daily
  missingok
  notifempty
}

For more look here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-manage-logfiles-with-logrotate-on-ubuntu-16-04.

Upvotes: 2

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