>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all, In the process of making things up as I go along again.
> I have created a logrotate file on the direction of another
> person to back up my databases on MySQL. Now I understand that
> this needs to be called from Cron for it to work.
> Having had a browse around I see there is a reference to
> logrotate in the cron.daily folder, do I need to add anything
> extra to ensure that the file I have added is executed? For the
> purpose of testing what extra could I add to run the process at
> short intervals to check it is working?
Alex,
You will want to look at /etc/logrotate.conf and
/etc/logrotate.d/mysqld. If you installed MySQL properly, there may
be an "/etc/logrotate.d/mysqld" file existing. This is what it looks
like on my system:
/var/log/mysqld.log {
missingok
create 0640 mysql mysql
prerotate
[ -e /var/lock/subsys/mysqld ] && /usr/bin/mysqladmin flush-logs || /bin/true
endscript
postrotate
[ -e /var/lock/subsys/mysqld ] && /usr/bin/mysqladmin flush-logs || /bin/true
endscript
}
You will also want to look at the "logrotate --force" command in the
manpage for logrotate.
Regards,
Gregg
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