rotate log files 1

[bcardona]

i was told that i had to rotate log files because one was getting to big, but im not sure how to do that. im using red hat adv.2.1, any help is apprecitated.

thanks
bc

 

[thedaver]

man logrotate

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[bcardona]

do i have to manually put all the log files i want to rotate and delete in logrotate.conf, ex.

my maillog and messages log files grow rapidly, so do i put

/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages in the conf file?

 

[thedaver]

logrotate.conf

# 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.

example: /etc/logrotate.d/named

/var/log/named.log {
    missingok
    create 0644 named named
    postrotate
        /sbin/service named reload  2> /dev/null > /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

example: /etc/logrotate.d/syslog

/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

example: /etc/logrotate.d/spamd

/var/log/spamd.log {
    missingok
    notifempty
    size 30k
    create 0600 root root
}

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[bcardona]

thanks a bunch daver,