severity 584515 wishlist
merge 584515 214549
thanks

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:23:29AM +0200, root wrote:

> My root partition containing /var/log is often nearly saturated, so
> I tried to move old rotated logs to another bigger partition using
> olddir parameter.

       olddir <directory>
              Logs are moved into <directory> for rotation. The directory must
              be  on  the  same physical device as the log file being rotated,
              and is assumed to be relative to the directory holding  the  log
              file unless an absolute path name is specified. When this option
              is used all old versions of the log end up in <directory>.  This
              option may be overridden by the noolddir option.

It's a documented limitation, I'm afraid.

I'd suggest putting all of /var/log on the bigger partition (using a
bind mount or a symlink).

-- 
Paul Martin <p...@debian.org>



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