From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: If you want to add the date to the name of the logifle, something like extension `date '+%b%d%Y'` doesn't work. Anything in this direction would be great... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add "extension `date '+%b%d%Y'`" to conf file 2. the result logfile name ist "logfile-`date '+%b%d%Y'`.1.log Additional info:
An other way to solve this problem, is to add a new option, like "date" and "dateformat: /var/log/messages { rotate 5 weekly date dateformat "yyyy-mm-dd" postrotate /sbin/killall -HUP syslogd endscript }
Taking patches, but not planning to do much more than that at this point.
Bug 108775 has a patch for something similar.