%% Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
im> Just curious: What drawbacks?
I found two, but only one is really critical:
1) You can use globbing to have a single stanza match multiple log
files, BUT the entire stanza is run each time for each log file,
_including_ the postrotate s
> "PDS" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PDS> Unfortunately after playing with logrotate, it has some
PDS> significant drawbacks that would need to be addressed before
PDS> it could be considered sufficiently generic to be used by
PDS> "everyone".
Just curious: What
%% Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
eb> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:08:00PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
>> This seems needlessly complex: how many different log rotating tools do
>> we need to have on a system in order to do the job? Debian should pick
>> one and try to move all t
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:08:00PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> OK, I see sysklogd.
>
> This seems needlessly complex: how many different log rotating tools do
> we need to have on a system in order to do the job? Debian should pick
> one and try to move all the standard system services to use t
OK, I see sysklogd.
This seems needlessly complex: how many different log rotating tools do
we need to have on a system in order to do the job? Debian should pick
one and try to move all the standard system services to use that one
tool, IMO.
Next question: how in the heck are the Apache logs ro
> Most of the system files are being rotated by sysklogd.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas.
Did some more digging, finally found savelog. If you check your
/etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.weekly, you'll find savelog is called by sysklogd.
change the -c 4 to something higher, and in the other, the -c 7 to
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:31:28PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> [...]
> I mean, I know about logrotate and I ass-u-me that the logs in /var/log
> are rotated using logrotate... no?
>
> When I look in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate I see an invocation of
> logrotate with the config file /etc/logratate.
"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> How are the rest of the log files getting rotated? Is this built into
> logrotate somehow so it doesn't need to be configured? Or what?
Indeed. I changed my logrotate.conf, to rotate weekly, for 52 weeks. So far,
some
files rotate daily, some rotate weekly, some rota
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