set sane format for archived logs, so the files would be sortable ideally this should came from config (date_format=iso8601) --- nagios-3.4.1/base/logging.c~ 2012-05-24 17:09:34.000000000 +0300 +++ nagios-3.4.1/base/logging.c 2012-05-24 17:10:09.466859755 +0300 @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ stat_result = stat(log_file, &log_file_stat); /* get the archived filename to use */ - asprintf(&log_archive, "%s%snagios-%02d-%02d-%d-%02d.log", log_archive_path, (log_archive_path[strlen(log_archive_path) - 1] == '/') ? "" : "/", t->tm_mon + 1, t->tm_mday, t->tm_year + 1900, t->tm_hour); + asprintf(&log_archive," %s%snagios-%04d-%02d-%02d-%02d.log", log_archive_path, (log_archive_path[strlen(log_archive_path) - 1] == '/') ? "" : "/", t->tm_year + 1900, t->tm_mon + 1, t->tm_mday, t->tm_hour); /* rotate the log file */ rename_result = my_rename(log_file, log_archive); --- nagios-3.4.1/cgi/cgiutils.c~ 2012-05-24 17:09:34.000000000 +0300 +++ nagios-3.4.1/cgi/cgiutils.c 2012-05-24 17:11:08.629380008 +0300 @@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ t = localtime(&this_scheduled_log_rotation); /* use the time that the log rotation occurred to figure out the name of the log file */ - snprintf(buffer, buffer_length, "%snagios-%02d-%02d-%d-%02d.log", log_archive_path, t->tm_mon + 1, t->tm_mday, t->tm_year + 1900, t->tm_hour); + snprintf(buffer, buffer_length, "%snagios-%04d-%02d-%02d-%02d.log", log_archive_path, t->tm_year + 1900, t->tm_mon + 1, t->tm_mday, t->tm_hour); buffer[buffer_length - 1] = '\x0'; return;