Worked it out

I worked out why X wouldn't start (had my XFree86 config wrong). Thanks anyway.

Re: I worked it out :)

syslogd-listfiles uses the wildcard to decide if the log is rotated weekly or daily. syslogd-listfiles will return debug as rotated weekly. *.=debug;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug but if you change entry to below, syslogd-listfiles will reuturn deb

Re: I worked it out :)

On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 06:40:08PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: [...] > Is there anyway to specify that a log file is to be a daily-rotated one > rather than a weekly-rotated one? [...] See man logrotate and /etc/logrotate.conf Use the directive, "daily". Art

I worked it out :)

Hi all, I have overcome my syslog problem, now i have only one query. The "sysklogd" script in my /etc/cron.daily directory uses the "syslogd-listfiles" command to list what log files it should log. However, this command brings up nothing. "syslogd-listfiles --weekly" brings up all my log files