[Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Weekly log rotation

[Jon Nettleton]

Does it work if you run /etc/cron.daily/logrotate by hand as root?


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What does your /etc/logrotate.conf look like?  One option for logrotate
>> is to only rotate if the logs have reached a certain size.
>>
>>
> My understanding was it was supposed to rotate weekly no matter what.
>
> [root at schoolserver] ~ >cat /etc/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
>
> # use date as a suffix of the rotated file
> dateext
>
> # 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 and btmp -- we'll rotate them here
> /var/log/wtmp {
>     monthly
>     create 0664 root utmp
> minsize 1M
>     rotate 1
> }
>
> /var/log/btmp {
>     missingok
>     monthly
>     create 0600 root utmp
>     rotate 1
> }
>
> # system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
>
>
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