Description of problem: The documentation for logrotate does not discuss how it provides arguments to prerotate/postrotate scripts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.7.4-9 The man page for logrotate does not mention arguments passed to the prerotate and postrotate scripts. However, bugs 241766 and 445554 indicate that logrotate passes as arguments to the script the matching log files that (are about to be / have just been) rotated. What is the official behavior? If multiple log files are matched in a block, then how does logrotate pass those as arguments? Is the behavior altered by wildcards versus explicit names? Is the behavior altered by sharedscripts versus nosharedscripts?
Seconding this bug. The man page should actually *also* say that a bash script is actually accepted between the "prerotate/postrotate" and "endscript" tags (Or is it a sh script? how about on a Debian system? Can another shell be chosen?) It is all very experimentalist. Still open for logrotate-3.7.4-9
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An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0816.html