Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [08-30-04 04:02]:
> 
> How would I check, besides viewing the cron_daily etc scripts, that the
> logrotated had run and compressed any of my logs?
... 
> P.S.: Anything besides 'man logrotate' Pat?

 :^)
 
why not look at the config files for logrotate and see which files
should have compression/rotation performed, then display the
directories where those files exist?  ie:

partial view of /etc/logrotate.d/syslog

/var/log/warn /var/log/messages /var/log/allmessages /var/log/localmessages /var/log/firewall {
    compress
    dateext
    maxage 365
    rotate 99
    missingok
    notifempty
    size +4096k
    create 640 root root
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /etc/init.d/syslog reload
    endscript
}




so logrotate/digest will perform on /var/log/warn, /var/log/messages....

so on commandline or in your file browser of choice look in /var/log
for warn*

In my system I see (abreviated):

/var/log/warn
.....
/var/log/warn-20040814.gz
/var/log/warn-20040817.gz
/var/log/warn-20040819.gz
/var/log/warn-20040821.gz
/var/log/warn-20040824.gz
/var/log/warn-20040825.gz
/var/log/warn-20040827.gz




so I may conclude that files are being condensed/compressed and rotated.

Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?  The thing to learn is not what was
done, but how it was approached.

  :^)



ps:  man logrotate *is* the correct answer.  If you will look in man
logrotate, for 'CONFIGURATION FILE', you will see an example of what I
just went thru and an explanation.  Man files may be somewhat obtuse,
but a quick scan, then a more cursory look at the particular items that
appear to apply, *usually* will give enough direction to solve a
problem or, at least, give understanding.

NOTE:  The manner you posed your question deserved the *long*
explanation rather than the exemplary 'RTFM'.  
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