What rotates syslog?

essdeeay · 05-03-2006, 06:13 PM

I was looking at /etc/logrotate.conf, and I can't see anything about how syslog is rotated. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

Brian1 · 05-03-2006, 06:38 PM

Not seeing your conf file more than likely it will look in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and do what the configurtion files in there say to do.

Brian1

ataraxia · 05-03-2006, 06:41 PM

Look in /etc/logrotate.d/ .

sundialsvcs · 05-04-2006, 10:02 AM

The logrotate process is typically run once a day by cron, which is a scheduling daemon that runs all the time doing things periodically.

See: /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.*.

logrotate uses its configuration files to decide what needs to be rotated, compressed and so-on.