Is there a way to get logrotate to only compress files modified X number of days ago (e.g. mtime +2)
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Is there a way to get logrotate to only compress files modified X number of days ago (e.g. mtime +2)
Well you can use delaycompress to wait one more cycle. Basically if you rotate daily then it will keep yesterdays logs uncompressed.
Besides that you could try not using logrotate to compress the files and write a bash script to run like once a day and compress all files older than a certain date.
Here is a tutorial to bash that I personally like: http://www.linuxconfig.org/Bash_scripting_Tutorial