Log rotation overwrites old logs on service stop

It seems that when stopping the flume-node service the log file is automatically rotated. Occasionally this will result in another log file getting overwritten, possibly corresponding to the date when the service was started. Notice:

1. head flume-flume-node-....log.2011-05-16
   2011-05-17 00:00:00,665 INFO com.cloudera.flume.handlers.endtoend.AckChecksumChecker

In this case, I believe the service was started on 5/16. I lost that original log file, so I cannot confirm this

My temp workaround is to gzip logfiles after they have been automatically rotated, via a cronjob.