Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 14:20 schrieb Martin Dickopp: > "Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log, > > and debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb). > > I don't have a "debug.log" file on my system. Do you mean "debug"?
yes, I meant debug... Sorry. > > I looked in logrotate.conf and logrotate.d, but didn't find anything > > that would rotate these files. Aren't these files rotated in a > > "standard" installation? > > They are rotated by "/etc/cron.daily/sysklogd". ok, so I don't need to change anything except to install anacron (suggested by Andreas) since this computer doesn't run in Linux all the time, and never 24 hours a day. > > I also noticed that the logrotate entry in cron.daily only points at > > logrotate.conf, but what about the logrotate.d entries, how do they > > get loaded? > > "logrotate.conf" should contain the configuration directive > "include /etc/logrotate.d". ah, yes, and it does. Thanks! > Martin -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 D-30173 Hannover ------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 D-30173 Hannover -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
