hi,
I add following code to my redhat server's /etc/logroate.conf file:

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
#weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
#rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
#create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.

compress

/home/cc/logs/logs/oi {
rotate 1

daily

olddir /var/oi


}

what I want to do is move the logs in /home/cc/logs/logs/oi tt /var/oi and zipped veryday and keep them for a week, so that will get more space for my home directory.
but it don't work, i checked my /var/oi ,it's empty, even I force to excute it by:
#/usr/sbin/logroate -f /etc/logroate.conf
still same.
can anyone tell me why?
thanks!
jimy

Remove the code you added below system-specific section and take a look in files at /etc/logrotate.d/ and use one of them as template for your needs.
Just create a new file under /etc/logrotate.d/ and go on.

greate. it works! thanks a lot!

two more question, do I need to setup anything more for automatic excute the config file I created at /etc/logrotate ? this is what I write in it:

/home/cc/logs/oi/*.xml {
copytruncate
daily
rotate 7
compress
missingok
}

the *xml is the log file in oi directory looks like:log20061213171209Lbuild.358.xml

and the other question is when I use the command #logrotate -f /etc/logroate.d/oi to run it, I get a lot of log20061213171209Lbuild.358.xml kind files they are all empty, is any way to clean them? or not generate them?

thank!

logrotate doesn't create logfiles from scratch, it simply copies them and deletes any older than (in your case) 7 iterations ago.
Incidentally, if you've got compress set (as you seem to) then the file you are looking at is not one of the ones that have been rotated. They should end in '.gz' .
If the file is empty, look at the creating program.

but, I put "daily " on there, it should execute everyday, but it's not. what's wrong?