On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 12:39, 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:
> /var/log/messages:58823 unknown option 'Dec' -- ignoring line
> error: /var/log/messages:58823 unexpected text"
> cron and anacron are installed (PC not on 24hrs) so any suggestions would be
> gratefully received.
The logrotate command expects to be passed a config file not
a log file (as in your example). The config file will contain
the name of various files and some rules about rotating it.
In my /etc/cron.daily/logrotate file, the actual command
that gets run is /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
See man logrotate for more info.
-Mark
>
> If it helps -
> /etc/cron.d is an empty directory
> /etc/cron.daily contains 0anacron,
> logrotate,makewhatis.cron,msec,rpm,tetex.cron (scripts) and tmpwatch (file)
> /etc/cron.hourly only contains msec script
> /etc/cron.monthly only contains 0anacron
> /etc/cron.weekly contains 0anacron, makewhatis.cron, makewhatis-en.cron and
> slocate.cron scripts
>
> /etc/logrotate.d contains cron, linuxconf,msec,rpm,sudo,syslog,urpmi,xdm -
> text files
>
> /etc/logrotate.conf is below (blank lines deleted here for brevity)
> # see "man logrotate" for details
> # rotate log files weekly
> weekly
> # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
> rotate 4
> # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
> create
> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
> compress
> # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
> include /etc/logrotate.d
> # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
> /var/log/wtmp {
> monthly
> create 0664 root utmp
> rotate 1
> }
> /var/log/lastlog {
> monthly
> rotate 1
> }
> # system-specific logs may be configured here
>
>
>
>
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