Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread C. Beamer
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. If not,

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent (and logrotate frequency)

2005-09-18 Thread C. Beamer
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 to look into

[gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-17 Thread C. Beamer
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

RE: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
runlevel -Original Message- From: C. Beamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:11 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent Hi all, When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent (and logrotate frequency)

2005-09-17 Thread John Myers
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,