On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > On my Woody system, there's nothing in /etc/logrotate.d > except the file for the base-config. Yet, looking at > /var/log shows that syslog, messages, daemon.log user.log, > and other stuff are clearly being rotated.
It turns out that logrotate isn't actually used for much of anything. There are a whole bunch of individual cron.daily jobs that rotate log files for various packages (generally using the "savelog" program). Needless to say, this approach makes administration of log files a royal pain, since there are a whole bunch of individual scripts that have to be modified instead of just changing the configuration for logrotate. Since logrotate is an "important" package, I don't think it would be a big problem if packagers depended on it for rotating logs rather than installing individual cron.daily jobs. If everybody used logrotate, it would make system administration easier. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
