Bug 677288

2. What is the nature and description of the request?

Customer is looking to increase their usage of httpd's rotatelogs to replace
their current custom log rotation script, but it lacks one piece of
functionality to make that possible.  They currently have a directory which
their log processing apps work out of, and to prevent any conflicts caused by
reading the currently active log file, they rotate logs into a separate
directory from where it is initially created.  So for instance, they may have
apache logging to /var/log/httpd/instance1_access.log, and once the file is
rotated out it gets moved to /data/logs/instance1_access.log and their app
picks it up.  They would like for rotatelogs to support doing something like
this.  For example, you could pass it a flag like "rotatelogs -d /data/logs/"
that would cause it to rotate logs into that custom destinatino.

3. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

Simplified management of log files

4. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional
requirements here)

A flag to rotatelogs letting you specify the destination to rotate files into

5. For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat
and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully
implemented.

Configure rotatelogs with the flag/destination and ensure that files are moved
here after being rotated out. 

6. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla?

No

7. How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release)

earliest RHEL 5 minor release possible

8. Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria (please review)

Yes

9. List the affected packages

httpd