Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lamar Owen wrote on 05/21/2011 04:25 PM: >> early in the thread, it was clear from a reply's content that >> > a locally installed 'ftpd' and not the CentOS vsftpd was >> > being used > Looking... don't see that. Perhaps I'm just missing it. Same here. The OP only replied once, and had the sam

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, May 21, 2011 01:43:10 PM R P Herrold wrote: > On Sat, 21 May 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Wait a cotton-picking minute. Why is vsftpd writing to > > /var/log/xferlog in the first place, and not > > /var/log/vsftpd.log? > > early in the thread, it was clear from a reply's content tha

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-21 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 21.5.2011 20.43, R P Herrold wrote: > early in the thread, it was clear from a reply's content that > a locally installed 'ftpd' and not the CentOS vsftpd was > being used I think you are inadvertently confusing the issue. ftpd is mentioned in this file (see below), but still vsftpd is used:

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-21 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 21.5.2011 19.02, Lamar Owen wrote: > Now, one of my C5.6 boxen is set up with /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf: > # The name of log file when xferlog_enable=YES and xferlog_std_format=YES > # WARNING - changing this filename affects /etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd.log > #xferlog_file=/var/log/xferlog > # > which

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, May 20, 2011 10:43:10 AM Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Steven Crothers wrote: > > It's a bit funny that logrotate is difficult to fix for you... > > considering you have "System Engineer Sr. Professional" in your > > signature... > > This gave me a ch

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote on 05/20/2011 11:35 AM: ... > And find out why they disappeared. No indication anything disappeared the way I read it. There was nothing explicitly there for xferlog because it is in /etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd.log. Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread m . roth
Patricia A Moss wrote: > I am not sure how to correctly troubleshoot this. I just noticed that my > /var/log/xferlog file is huge. There are no files in /etc/logrotate.d/ > for xferlog. This is what leads me to believe that it isnot rotating. Or > perhaps I do not have it set to rotate. I am not

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Patricia A Moss wrote on 05/20/2011 11:16 AM: > I have the same: If the size of the logs is problematic perhaps you need to rotate more frequently, perhaps daily rather than weekly, and specify compress for old logs. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 20 May 2011, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > This gave me a chuckle. :) Ah, the advantage of being a consultant > or working at a tiny company where you can assign your own titles! At the Oregon Graduate Institute, a professor had a nice sign on one of the labs in the electrical engineering bu

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Patricia A Moss
properly nocompress missingok } PATI MOSS System Engineer Sr. Professional CSC From: Phil Schaffner To: Date: 05/20/2011 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating. Patricia A Moss wrote on 05/20/2011 09:25 AM: > > I am not sure how to correctly troubleshoot this

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Schaffner
Patricia A Moss wrote on 05/20/2011 09:25 AM: > > I am not sure how to correctly troubleshoot this. I just noticed that my > /var/log/xferlog file is huge. There are no files in /etc/logrotate.d/ > for xferlog. This is what leads me to believe that it isnot rotating. Or > perhaps I do not have it s

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread m . roth
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Steven Crothers wrote: >> It's a bit funny that logrotate is difficult to fix for you... >> considering you have "System Engineer Sr. Professional" in your >> signature... > > This gave me a chuckle. :) Ah, the advantage of being a

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Steven Crothers wrote: > It's a bit funny that logrotate is difficult to fix for you... > considering you have "System Engineer Sr. Professional" in your > signature... This gave me a chuckle. :) Ah, the advantage of being a consultant or working at a tin

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Steven Crothers
It's a bit funny that logrotate is difficult to fix for you... considering you have "System Engineer Sr. Professional" in your signature... /var/log/xferlog { missingok notifempty compress rotate 5 size 1024k yearly create 0600 root root } Modify to suit your needs. O