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05-03-2006, 07:13 PM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Distribution: Debian
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What rotates syslog?
I was looking at /etc/logrotate.conf, and I can't see anything about how syslog is rotated. Any ideas?
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05-03-2006, 07:38 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Seymour, Indiana
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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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
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05-03-2006, 07:41 PM
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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Pittsburgh
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Look in /etc/logrotate.d/ .
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05-04-2006, 11:02 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: SE Tennessee, USA
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
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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.
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