Re: Logfiles from syslogd

2007-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
Tom Schmitt wrote: > My question: Is there a goog reason for this Yes, it allows automatically rotating all log files configured in /etc/syslog.conf, even if you modify the file and add new ones, without needing to update a separate logrotate configuration file. -- see shy jo signature.asc Des

Re: Logfiles from syslogd

2007-04-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 22:00 +0200, Tom Schmitt wrote: > Some logfiles are rotated with logrotated, which is > quite confortable. But the syslogd-logfiles have their > own script to rotate them. > > My question: Is there a goog reason for this or could I > delete the syslog-script and rotate the sy

Logfiles from syslogd

2007-04-01 Thread Tom Schmitt
Hi, I setup a server with Debian Etch and had a look at the handling of th logfiles. Some logfiles are rotated with logrotated, which is quite confortable. But the syslogd-logfiles have their own script to rotate them. My question: Is there a goog reason for this or could I delete the syslog-sc