Can syslog rotate logs? I just use logrotate.
Itay <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 21:47:11 +0100 >> From: Sven Hartge <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating? >> Resent-Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 20:48:34 +0000 (UTC) >> Resent-From: [email protected] >> >> Itay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Can someone help me, please, to understand why syslog is not >rotating? >> >> The system ist not running at the time when cron.daily is scheduled >to >> run? --> anacron takes care of that. > >Sven, > >Thank you for your reply. > >My system was continuously on except for very short random periods and >3 weeks on Aug 2013. In contrast, the listing below shows (I believe) >that syslog stopped rotating at 2010. > ># ls -gh /var/log/syslog* >-rw-r----- 1 adm 219M Nov 2 21:50 syslog >-rw-r----- 1 adm 2.5K Jun 5 2010 syslog.1 >-rw-r----- 1 adm 0 Nov 1 07:50 syslog.1.gz >-rw-r----- 1 adm 661 Jun 5 2010 syslog.2.gz > >However: >I checked /etc/cron.daily and did not find entry for rsyslog. >Maybe that's the cause? > >> Or somehow there is an error and logrotate refuses to run. In that >case >> run logrotate manually with the debug-switch "-d" and see if anything >> strange appears. >> > >Is logrotate responsible for rotating syslog files? >Information on the net [1] suggests it's not. >----------------------------------- >[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog > >I am confused... > >Finally, I should point out that, I have just completed dist-upgrade >from squeeze to wheezy with no major problems. >This issue came up as I was cleaning-up after the upgrade. > >Many thanks, >Itay > >> Grüße, >> Sven. >> >>
