On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:39, john wrote: > I tried this on newbie a while ago and got no joy, my /var/log/messages > and /var/log/syslog fill up and I have to delete the entries by hand (if > I try logrotate -f /var/log/messages I get a terminal full of "error:
> /etc/logrotate.d contains cron, linuxconf,msec,rpm,sudo,syslog,urpmi,xdm > - text files > It is no surprise that "logrotate -f /var/log/messages" results in a lot of errors since you're telling logrotate to use /var/log/messages as the control file, which is of course very different from telling logrotate to rotate /var/log/messages. The command that is in my /etc/cron.daily/logrotate file is: /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf and you may want to add the -f flag there to force the log rotation, so run "/usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf" If this does not rotate your /var/log/messages, have a look at the file that controls that, namely /etc/logrotate.d/syslog. [I presume that you saw the include line in your /etc/logrotate.conf file, it included all the files in the /etc/logrotate.d directory] Narfi.
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