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Hi all,

I have recently started using logrotate to rotate all the logs in the users 
home directories. These are all apache logs files.

/home/domain.com/logsaccess_log
/home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.0.gz
/home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.1.gz
/home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.2.gz

I have a problem though. Some of my domains have softlinks pointing to them, 
this causes the logs to be rotated 2 or more times (i.e. 1 time for the 
'real' directory, and 1 time each for each softlink pointing to them).

Example

/home/domain.com/logs/
domain2.com -> domain.com
domain3.com -> domain.com

will result in the 'access_log' being rotated 3 times in one run, causing my 
log dirs to look like this:

-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt   160 Oct  1 05:44 access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt   446 Oct  1 05:44 error_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt    20 Oct  1 03:46 access_log.1.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt    20 Oct  1 03:46 access_log.2.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt    20 Oct  1 03:46 access_log.3.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt    20 Oct  1 03:46 access_log.4.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt    20 Oct  1 03:46 access_log.5.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt    20 Oct  1 03:46 access_log.6.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt   224 Oct  1 03:46 access_log.7.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt    20 Sep 30 03:46 access_log.8.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root      holt    20 Sep 30 03:46 access_log.9.gz

Here is this appropriate part of my logrotate.conf

# logrotate.conf

compress

...

/home/*/logs/access_log {
        missingok
        rotate 14
        daily
        create 644 root
        sharedscripts
                postrotate
                        /usr/local/sbin/apachectl restart
                endscript
                }

# End of logrotate.conf


Question, is there a way to stop this from happening?

-Grant