Feature Request: Set default statefile via configuration

[hjf288]

It would be helpful to be able to specify the default state file name/location via the configuration file rather than have it defined at compile time or passed via command line.

[cgzones]

What is your use case?
Normally the default state file fits the default config files run by root, and if specified a separate config file one can also specify a separate state file.

[hjf288]

Sorry missed the notification for this.

I'm using log rotate in a ephemeral container and want to ensure that state is persisted by putting the file on shared storage.

I've modified the daily cron to define the location to the state file that I want, however when invoking logrotate via the CLI (arguably a rare situation) then I can't guarantee that someone is going to specify the location to the state file.

I can't use a symlink for /var/lib/logrotate/status as the symlink gets overwritten with a file - so I'd like to just be able to set the state file to the location it needs to be via configuration file.

You mention that a separate state file can be set via config - how is this done? I don't see reference to it in the man page, only passing it as a parameter to the log rotate command.