Hello Peter,
Peter Colton wrote:
> hello all,
>
> I would be gratefull for some help in how do I manage the log out
> put
> of a demon that I am running. The demon in question is Bttrack T-0.3.13
> (BitTornado), running on a sarge install at home on a adsl line. The out
> put
> logs are directed to /var/log/bttrack.log What I want to do with this log
> file is to have 7 days worth of out put that rotates from bttrack.log.0
> to bttrack.log.6 and for the logs from bttrack.log.1 tbttrack.log.6 to be
> compressed to .gz format. and the bttrack.log.0 to be uncompressed.
>
> I been trying to get syslog or logrotate to do the job but no luck yet.
> In the dir /etc/logrotate.d I added the file bttrack and in that file I
> placed the lines :
>
> /var/log/bttrack.log {
> rotate 7
> daily
> monthly
^^^^^^^ I think your problem is here. The monthly directive
overrides the daily directive.
> compress
> missingok
> }
>
> With the idea that this would do the job, but no luck again. I had
> similar
> attempts with configuring /etc/syslog.conf to manage the log out put of
> bttrack but again no joy there as well. I have been reading up on what I
> should be doing but I still can not see what the method is yet.
>
> So any positave adive well be more than well and any pointers to some
> howto links.
>
> Regards
>
> peter colton
Justin
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