On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:31:28PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > [...] > I mean, I know about logrotate and I ass-u-me that the logs in /var/log > are rotated using logrotate... no? > > When I look in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate I see an invocation of > logrotate with the config file /etc/logratate.conf. All well and good. > > But, there is no entry in /etc/logrotate.conf that pertains to the > general contents of /var/log! It does /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/btmp > and that's it. > > How are the rest of the log files getting rotated? Is this built into > logrotate somehow so it doesn't need to be configured? Or what? > [...]
Most of the system files are being rotated by sysklogd. Regards, Andreas.
