On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, C. Beamer wrote:
> Yes, I have /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng. This is what it says, but I
> have no idea what it means (I'm not a programmer):
>
> /var/log/messages {
> sharedscripts
> postrotate
> /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
> endsc
John Myers wrote:
>On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:11, C. Beamer wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Is there a default length of time before logrotate will rotate the log
>>files?
>>
>>
>check in /etc/logrotate.conf. I believe the default is weekly. Also, if your
>system is not run continuously, you may want
Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:11:02 -0400, C. Beamer wrote:
>
>
>
>>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.
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
On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:11, C. Beamer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
On my desktop system, my /var/log/messages starts October 19,
Are you shure you have any daemons started in your rc-update?
You might have to do something like:
rc-update add syslog-ng default
I don't use syslog, I use metalog myself, but I assume it's the same idea.
rc-update show
Will show all the things you have started and at what r
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