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. 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? This is a gentoo user list, right? That's what I am - a user. So don't laugh at this question. I was using Fedora Core, so all these things were automatically set up for me. I'm not stupid. Heck, I got Gentoo installed with only a few hitches, so I can be taught. However, if logrotate requires some configuration, I have no idea how to do it, so would appreciate some help. Also, does Gentoo have an equivalent to ntsysv where you can set services to stop and start? I assume that when you issue the command rc-update add <program name> default that this essentially is telling some service to start at boot time. However, if there is something like ntsysv available where you can see the services that are running, I would appreciate being told what it is. Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
