Re: A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:46:56PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Blasphemy!!! :-) > > All *nix machines should be on around the clock. To do otherwise is > borderline sacrilege. Maybe yours wouldn't be whirring away three feet from your head when when you were in bed :) Anyway, it seem

Re: A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:39:25PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > Just a thought: is your machine actually switched on at the time > logrotate is supposed to do its job? The default time is about > six in the morning and on my (home) machine it only performs on > the odd occasion that I work

Re: A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:39:53AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I ran out of space in a 9 Gbyte /var directory, most of the space > consumed by debug, kern.log and syslog files. With a little searching I > found the logrotate command and realized these files were being > rotated. In /var/

Re: A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread Wackojacko
Hans Hofker wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: I ran out of space in a 9 Gbyte /var directory, most of the space consumed by debug, kern.log and syslog files. ... As I noted above, the files were being rotated but not according to the logrotate.conf file so there must be a default somewhere.

Re: A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hofker
Thomas H. George wrote: I ran out of space in a 9 Gbyte /var directory, most of the space consumed by debug, kern.log and syslog files. ... As I noted above, the files were being rotated but not according to the logrotate.conf file so there must be a default somewhere. Where? On my system

A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread Thomas H. George
I ran out of space in a 9 Gbyte /var directory, most of the space consumed by debug, kern.log and syslog files. With a little searching I found the logrotate command and realized these files were being rotated. In /var/log I found a large (approximately 1 Gbyte) syslog file plus an equally l