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Old 05-29-2013, 10:05 AM   #1
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Question How does logrotate use its status file?


It seems the status file is only a record of the last day logrotate dealt with a log file.
But I am using logrotate for non-system purposes and the rotation is based entirely on size (not frequency). So I thought I might ignore the status file entirely. I run logrotate like so (in a cron job):
logrotate -s /dev/null .logrotate.conf
and it works fine.
Am I missing anything?
 
Old 05-29-2013, 01:45 PM   #2
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No, not missing anything.
 
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Old 05-30-2013, 03:54 AM   #3
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Thank you very much, unSpawn.
 
  


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