On Wednesday 01 September 2004 02:16, Scott Jones wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 00:28, Bob S. wrote:
I got a fortune of wtmp.gz files that go way back to Jan 2004.
OK, jumping in on this thread, I also have a gazillion files in /var/log/ such as localmessage, mail, messages , and various XF86 files, some going back to early 2003. Now, none of these are listed in the /etc/logrotate.d/ directory. Can I just add these categories to that directory by making new files?
Sure. That's what I do on my mailserver. With all the domains we host, qmail, qmail-scanner and clamav tend to be generous with the logs after getting hammered with spam and viruses. I have to rotate those, as well as the firewall logs, hourly.
The files in /etc/logrotate.d/ are good working examples, and don't forget that "man logrotate" is your friend.
-- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB I'm just a little puzzled. The 'logrotate.conf' file has the following: # see "man logrotate" for details # rotate log files weekly weekly
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 ...and the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog contains: /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 ...which seems to be contradictory. I have done 'man logrotate' & the 'maxage' seems nowhere in the docs. Some time back, I finally put '--force' in the logrotate script so that they'd be archived daily. Still, I have had to manually mv logs out of /var/log because they're not rotating at all. -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio "If music be the food of love, why can't rabbits sing?"