Those of you who don't pour over the latest bug reports constantly may have missed that RedHat have fixed 208538 (see http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0703.html)
"logrotate in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 did not support the maxage and dateext configuration parameters. Usage of these parameters has been backported and is now available to users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4."
basically logrotate-3.7.1-10 works as you'd expect from most other common non-stoneage linuxes and allows logs to be saved in .YYYYMMDD extensions, thus preventing huge renaming sessions nightly and forcing hard-link based backup systems (dirvish) to back up the whole log directory each night.
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