Logrotate

[jwant]

I am looking for a good document or anything that explains logrotate. Can anyone help?

 

[wlwoman]

Have you tried the logrotate manual (#man logrotate )? There's a ton of information in there. Also, try this article which explains a lot about setting up your log rotation:

http://www.sussexfind.co.uk/omegadm/tips/HOW-TO-ROLLOVER.htm

The manual for logrotate is in /usr/man and which manual is anyone's guess - in 6.1 it's manual 8.

 

[krischrist]

Hi,
As already said you can try a man on logrotate.This one is just an example.Here the messages is rotated twice eg. messages.1 , messages.2 like that.Even the size can be specified.

/var/log/messages {
rotate 2
daily
postrotate
killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
/var/log/secure {
size=20k
rotate 2
daily
postrotate
killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}

The other way is to configure the files in the directory /etc/logrotate.d
Here each file holds a specfic daemon logs.But make sure that in the /etc/logrotate.conf this is enabled like this

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

This is it!!
regards
Krischrist

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