On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:11:02 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was > suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming > unmanagageably large. I did this. However, my /var/log/messages file > includes logging from the first day that Gentoo was running on my system > and that's now about 2 weeks. > > Is there a default length of time before logrotate will rotate the log > files?
Do you have a config file for syslog-ng in /etc/logrotate.d? This should have been installed when you merged syslog-ng. If not, you'll find the file at /usr/portage/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.logrotate, copy it to /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng. -- Neil Bothwick "Fascinating," said Spock, watching Kirk's lousy acting.
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