On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 03:28:31PM +0100, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Good day everyone, > > the file /var/log/boot on my system has now grown up to more than 1.2MB. > It never got rotated since I installed this system (~ June 2018). > > I looked into /etc/init.d/bootlogd and there's apparently some code to > rotate /var/log/boot under the "stop)" clause of the "case $ACTION" > construct which does a check first (line 66): > > if [ -f /var/log/boot ] && [ -f /var/log/boot~ ] > then > […] > > after which the code follows which is supposed to rotate /var/log/boot > IIUC. > > /var/log/boot~ doesn't exist. It obviously never had been created and > therefore /var/log/boot isn't rotated, I think. > > I assume this to be a bug, but as I'm not familiar with the > particularities of init scripts, I'd like to ask for your opinions > about that issue here. >
Stefan, bootlogd will always log the current boot in /var/log/boot after having renamed it into /var/log/boot~. In this way you always have the log of the current boot in /var/log/boot and the log of the previous one in /var/log/boot~. So there should be no need to rotate them. HTH KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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