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Old 04-18-2004, 03:16 PM   #1
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manual log rotation


Hi, I have a quick question about rotating log files. I am running Mandrake 10 Community edition.

Is there a way of manually rotating the log files? My machine isn't on at a specific time each day so I can't set a specific time for this to be done. Are there any utilities availlable that can do this?

Thanks in advance

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Old 04-18-2004, 04:49 PM   #2
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hehe, strange i was rooting through this this monring...

most replacement cron daemons like anacron will (as far as i know) compensate for these kind of situations and run things on boot (typically after a certain wait etc...) but if you want to do it manually try "logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf" assuming that's where the config file is. the f will force the logs to be rotated, if you drop the -f it will only rotate them if necessary.. which is what the cron job would do.
 
Old 04-20-2004, 03:20 AM   #3
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Hi acid_kewpie
Thanks for the tip

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