Hi all! I've looked in the logrotate man page, /usr/share/doc/logrotate (not much there), and google, and I can't seem to find the answer to these questions:
1) I'd like to have the option of never deleting the backups for certain files. The 'rotate' keyword doesn't seem to do this for me, since 0 indicates no logkeeping at all. Is there a way to specify that I don't ever want to delete my logs? Is this perhaps done simply by not having a default 'rotate' entry and not specifying a 'rotate' value for the files in question? 2) The 'extension' keyword -- can it be used to embed a date instead of a number into the backups? I found a number of posts asking this question on google, but no definitive answer. If I *did* manage to do so, would putting dots in the filename confuse logrotate? How does it parse the files? (The latter is probably a RTFS question, huh?) 3) Permissions. The logrotate app is only executable by root on my box. I'm trying to imagine the situation in which giving a normal user access to logrotate would hurt anything, as long as logs have appropriate permissions. Could the paranoid among us speak up and educate me? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
