On Fri 12 Nov 2021 at 08:05:53 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > I have installed 4 1T samsung EVo 870's on their own non-raid sata > controller, but with 11 days uptime and the logrotate manager having a > 10k is too big attitude, all data from the last reboot has scrolled off > the end of /var/log/syslog-7.gz.
Package rsyslog doesn't have attitude, it has: $ head -12 /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog /var/log/syslog { rotate 7 ← increase to whatever you like daily missingok notifempty delaycompress compress postrotate /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate endscript } $ Cheers, David.