On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:27, mike wrote:
> Thanks, Fajar
> I edited the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog to daily instead of weekly.
> Under /etc/cron.daily I have logrotate* so I should be good to
> go.

Mike, JFYI:

the command to force log rotation of /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages 
would be:

#  logrotate -v -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog

NOTE:  Using the default logrotate config file for "syslog" 
(/etc/logrotate.d/syslog) will not only rotate /var/log/syslog and 
/var/log/messages but ALSO rotates a hell of lot of other logs like 
/var/log/auth.log and /var/log/user.log for example.  Look at the list in 
the config file.

You may want to first create your own config file just for /var/log/syslog 
and /var/log/messages that you can use whenever the need arises.  You could 
just copy /etc/logrotate.d/syslog to /home/user/mysyslog and remove all 
other logs from the list in this file and issue the command:

#  logrotate -v -f /home/user/mysyslog

Sharrea
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