Log rotating with a Bash script

Question

I have the following issue:

I have an application, which continuously produces output to stderr and stdout. The output of this application is captured in a logfile (the

Answer 1

I wrote a logrotee this weekend. I probably wouldn't if I've read @JdeBP's great answer about multilog before.

I focused on it being lightweight and being able to bzip2 its output chunks like:

verbosecommand | logrotee  \
  --compress "bzip2 {}" --compress-suffix .bz2 \
  /var/log/verbosecommand.log

There's a lot of to be done and tested yet, though.