How to daily rotate logs, with data from the current day only? - linux

Question

I rotate my nginx access log files with logrotate an have the following config:
/var/www/logs/*.log {
daily
missingok
dateext
dateformat _%Y-%m-%d
dateyesterday
rotate 90
compress
delaycompress
compressext
notifempty
create 0640 www-data www-data
sharedscripts
postrotate
[ -f /var/run/nginx.pid ] && kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`
endscript
}
When cron runs that script for example at 5am all logs between 0am and 5am in the file will be rotated.
I want a log file for exactly one day from midnight to 11.59pm
Is there an opportunity to configure this?

Answer 1

To rotate the log at 11.59pm configure the /etc/crontab file as follow :
59 23 * * * <path_to_logrotate_command> -f <path_to_logrotate_schedule_file>
E.g. 59 23 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /home/foo/logrotate/rotate_nginx

Answer 2

Actually, it would be better to just change the schedule of cron.daily, to something like this:
$ grep daily /etc/crontab
59 23 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
Remembering that this will be valid to each script inside /etc/cron.daily:
$ ls /etc/cron.daily -l
total 48
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 376 nov 20 2017 apport
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1478 abr 20 2018 apt-compat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 355 dic 29 2017 bsdmainutils
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1176 nov 2 2017 dpkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 372 ago 21 2017 logrotate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1065 abr 7 2018 man-db
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 539 jun 26 2018 mdadm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 538 mar 1 2018 mlocate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 249 ene 25 2018 passwd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3477 feb 21 2018 popularity-contest
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 246 mar 21 2018 ubuntu-advantage-tools
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 jun 27 2018 update-notifier-common
But if you need a specific schedule, just for a logrotate rule, the elected answer would be an option.