Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, C. Beamer wrote: > Yes, I have /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng. This is what it says, but I > have no idea what it means (I'm not a programmer): > > /var/log/messages { > sharedscripts > postrotate > /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true > endsc

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent (and logrotate frequency)

2005-09-18 Thread C. Beamer
John Myers wrote: >On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:11, C. Beamer wrote: > > >> >>Is there a default length of time before logrotate will rotate the log >>files? >> >> >check in /etc/logrotate.conf. I believe the default is weekly. Also, if your >system is not run continuously, you may want

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread C. Beamer
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:11:02 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > > > >>Is there a default length of time before logrotate will rotate the log >>files? >> >> > >Do you have a config file for syslog-ng in /etc/logrotate.d? This should >have been installed when you merged syslog-ng.

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:11:02 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was > suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming > unmanagageably large. I did this. However, my /var/log/messages file > includes logging from

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent (and logrotate frequency)

2005-09-17 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:11, C. Beamer wrote: > Hi all, > > When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was > suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming > unmanagageably large. On my desktop system, my /var/log/messages starts October 19,

RE: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
nd at what runlevel > -Original Message- > From: C. Beamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:11 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent > > Hi all, > > When I installed Gentoo, I chose

[gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-17 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming unmanagageably large. I did this. However, my /var/log/messages file includes logging from the first day that Gentoo was running on my system an