On 20/11/2016 02:21, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mick <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Saturday 19 Nov 2016 08:54:53 Harry Putnam wrote: >>> After looking thru the portage man pages, the make.conf.example in >>> /usr/share/portage/config, and the `Portage log wiki' it still is not >>> clear to me how long elogs are kept if you use the `save' flag in >>> make.conf or not. >>> >>> I did see something about '7 days' but it was not clear if that is the >>> default and `save' over-rides it or what. Or if there is another flag >>> that controls there duration... >>> >>> Can anyone throw light on that? >> >> If you have logrotate then its configuration and associated cron jobs will >> take >> care of that. > > What I want to know is if the elog program will do something on its > own... I'm wanting to hang on to the logs a good while... I saw > something in my readings about the elog system about 7 days... was not > clear if that is a defalult or what. > > So my fear was losing them even if I am logrotate at them in some > capacity. So I'm asking about inside the elog program... what happens > to the logs and when. > >
elog only appends to the log files. If you want rotation etc, use logrotate -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
