[Nottingham] logrotate issues

Mike Cardwell nlug at lists.grepular.com
Fri Dec 11 12:09:40 UTC 2009


Mike Cardwell 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...

Damnit. They're not being rotated by logrotate, they're being rotated by 
sysklogd. Looks like I need to fiddle with /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd

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Mike Cardwell - IT Consultant and LAMP developer
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