From 784380c3cac8837e879e7ba7ae07c19d8b8ca12e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren 'Tadgy' Austin <darren@afterdark.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 13:07:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Include a cronjob to create 'today' symlink for logs.

---
 cronjob-rotate-logs-today-symlink | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 cronjob-rotate-logs-today-symlink

diff --git a/cronjob-rotate-logs-today-symlink b/cronjob-rotate-logs-today-symlink
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f59a139
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cronjob-rotate-logs-today-symlink
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Default configuration.
+LOGS_DIR="/data/logs"
+
+# Process the directories in the $LOGS_DIR directory.
+[[ -d "$LOGS_DIR" ]] && {
+  TODAY="$(printf "%(%Y/%m/%d)T")"
+
+  for DIR in "$LOGS_DIR"/*/; do
+    cd "$DIR" 2>/dev/null || {
+      printf "%s: %s\\n" "${0##*/}" "failed to change directory to '$DIR'" >&2
+      continue
+    }
+
+    # Create the new days' location.
+    umask 0755
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2174
+    mkdir -p -m 0755 "$LOGS_DIR/$TODAY" 2>/dev/null || {
+      printf "%s: %s\\n" "${0##*/}" "failed to create directory '$LOGS_DIR/$TODAY'" >&2
+      continue
+    }
+
+    # Create the 'today' symlink to the new location.
+    ln -sfn "$TODAY" "today" 2>/dev/null || {
+      printf "%s: %s\\n" "${0##*/}" "updating 'today' symlink failed in '$DIR'" >&2
+      continue
+    }
+  done
+}
+
+exit 0