[Nottingham] logrotate issues

Mike Cardwell nlug at lists.grepular.com
Fri Dec 11 12:07:28 UTC 2009


Graeme Fowler wrote:

>> What on Earth is telling my system to rotate mail.log on a daily basis 
>> and to only keep the last weeks worth of logs?
> 
> As root:
> 
> logrotate -d
> 
> That will run through the config (which probably calls a bunch of
> includes in /etc/logrotate.d) and show you what it *would* do, without
> doing it. Then you can see where the mail log gets rotated.

The plot thickens. It doesn't even mention mail.log when I do that. Nor 
the other general system logs like syslog/messages etc...

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