Are you shure you have any daemons started in your rc-update?
You might have to do something like:
rc-update add syslog-ng default
I don't use syslog, I use metalog myself, but I assume it's the same idea.
rc-update show
Will show all the things you have started and at what runlevel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. Beamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent
>
> 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
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