logrotate daemon???

[SelbyGlenn]

Hi there,

I have just downloaded and installed a script for automating the startup of Lotus Domino Server running on RH7.3 One of the functions of the script is to redirect the Notes console to a log file. Hashed out in the script is the line "Be sure to change the logrotate daemon" What does this mean?

Thanks in advance, Glenn
BEng A+ MCSE CCA

 

[Norwich]

Under linux logrotate is not a daemon - but is usually ru daily under cron (see both the man pages for logrotate and cron).

What it does is copy a current logfile to a backup - and also backs up previous backups for a certain period.

Eg.:
ftp.log -> ftp.log.1
ftp.log.1 -> ftp.log.2
ftp.log.2 -> ftp.log.3
.
.
ftp.log.9 -> ftp.log.10
ftp.log.10 deleted.

It does this so the sizes of log files do not grow enormously.

Sometimes. the numbered backups are compressed too.

There is a config file for rotate in the /etc directory which indicates what logs to rotate and for how long. I would think the comment in the file refers to modifing the config file so that the rotate program will also rotate this now logfile too...