Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate
partition so that if it does become full you still have access to your
system, and it will mostly still function as normal.
On 2/23/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andras Lorincz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Not so far I had a problem with disc space and it turned out that syslog and
> > one more log file occupied together multiple gigabytes so I found out that
> > logrotate could help me. The thing is that I don't know what they mean by
> > rotating files, could you tell me?
>
> It means taking the current log, saving it under a different name (and
> often in a compressed format to save disk space) and starting a new
> empty log file. Then you keep the older log files around for a certain
> amount of time (typically one week) and after that you either delete
> them or back them up on an archiving medium (tape etc.) for really
> critical servers. This is normally set up as an automated process.
>
> To illustrate it with an example, this is part of my /var/log/ directory:
>
> syslog
> syslog.0
> syslog.1.gz
> syslog.2.gz
> syslog.3.gz
> syslog.4.gz
> syslog.5.gz
> syslog.6.gz
>
> "syslog" is the current log file, the rest are from 1, 2, etc. days ago.
> Tonight my logs will be rotated again, which means that syslog.6.gz
> (from 7 days ago) will be deleted, the names of all the other ones will
> be incremented and a new "syslog" will be started.
>
> On Debian everything about this is very well configured by default, you
> just need to install the packages "logrotate" and "cron". Rotating the
> logs is normally done by a cron-job during the night. If you do not
> leave on your PC overnight then you need the package "anacron" which
> makes sure that the cron jobs are run during the day (5 minutes after
> boot by default) if they were "missed" at the night.
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
>
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