Jakob wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running logrotate on my homeserver and the logs are rotated
> correctly but after rotating it should create new empty log files and
> that doesnt work.
>
> here are my confs:
> /etc/logrotate.conf:
> # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/logrotate/files/logrotate.conf,v
> 1.2 2004/07/18 01:58:24 dragonheart Exp $
> #
> # Logrotate default configuration file for Gentoo Linux
> #
> # See "man logrotate" for details
>
> # rotate log files weekly
> weekly
> #daily
>
> # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
> rotate 10
>
> # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
> create
>
> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
> compress
>
> # packages can drop log rotation information into this directory
> include /etc/logrotate.d
>
> notifempty
> nomail
> noolddir
>
> # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
> /var/log/wtmp {
> monthly
> create 0664 root utmp
> rotate 1
> }
>
> # system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
>
> and /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng:
> # $Header:
> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.logrotate,v
> 1.2 2004/07/18 02:25:02 dragonheart Exp $
> #
> # Syslog-ng logrotate snippet for Gentoo Linux
> # contributed by Michael Sterrett
> #
>
> /var/log/messages {
> dateext
> olddir /var/log/
> copy
> create 0600 root root
> size 5000k
> sharedscripts
> postrotate
> /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
> endscript
> }
>
> I thought create will do this but it doesn't work and my logs getting
> bigger and bigger.
> What did I do wron?
>
> Regards
>
> Jakob
>
The command touch should work. Not sure on the permissions though.
Dale
:-) :-)
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