OK, both Norman and Shaleh didn't understand my question. i can only conclude that i'm an idiot. =) here's a second shot:
these are the output of 'syslogd-listfiles' and 'syslogd-listfiles --weekly': alsu# syslogd-listfiles /var/log/syslog alsu# syslogd-listfiles --weekly /var/log/messages /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.info /var/log/uucp.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/user.log /var/log/ppp.log /var/log/kern.log /var/log/auth.log /var/log/mail.log /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/debug /etc/cron.daily calls 'syslogd-listfiles' and concludes that /var/log/syslog should be rotated daily. /etc/cron.weekly calls 'syslogd-listfiles --weekly' and rotates all the other logs on a weekly basis. the change i want to make is to rotate /var/log/syslog on a *weekly* basis, rather than a daily basis. as Shaleh points out, this particular modification can be accomplished by simply moving /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd to /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd2 or something. i claim this isn't the Debian Way, but rather a hack. for example, how would one make /var/log/messages rotate daily rather than weekly? i would like a way for 'syslogd-listfiles' and 'syslogd-listfiles --weekly' to output something like the following: alsu# syslogd-listfiles /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages alsu# syslogd-listfiles --weekly /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.info /var/log/uucp.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/user.log /var/log/ppp.log /var/log/kern.log /var/log/auth.log /var/log/mail.log /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/debug it seems to me that there should be a way to do this, but currently it requires an act of god, or at least some really gross changes to /etc/syslog.conf which will probably change the way stuff gets logged. (i admit, i don't really understand what facilities and priorities are, which is what syslogd-listfiles uses to decide when things need to be logged.) looked at it another way, my question could be, "why doesn't syslogd-listfiles have it's own config file which describes directly when things should be rotated, rather than inferring that from /etc/syslog.conf?" does this make sense? -alan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
