Proposal for an 'alwaysaction' or 'forceactions' option

[realsimix]

Hi,

It would be nice to have an alwaysaction or forceactions option which can be used to force running of an action no matter if a log was rotated or not.

In my case I need it for complex postprocessing of logs in addition to the processing done by logrotate. From my searches on the internet I gather that I'm not the only one looking for such a feature.

alwaysaction could work like lastaction but being called always.

or

forceactions could make all actions to be run always.

Would be nice to have this in new versions although it wont help for existing systems.

Regards,
Simon

[kdudka]

What would be the advantage over running such a script by cron or systemd timer directly?

[realsimix]

It makes sure the script is always run when logrotate has been running, independent from how and when logrotate is running.

I'm packaging software and it's better to run the postprocessing script from within logrotate. That way I can be sure the script is always run at the correct time in the correct order, no matter which init system is used on the target system or what cron implementation is used.

That's a huge advantage over all the hacky solutions by adding it to systemd, init scripts, cron entries or systemd timers.