Re: [SLUG] do all logs in /var/log get rotated, or where is that ?

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Voytek wrote:
>what motivates various log files in /var/log to be rotated ?
>
>if I have a script that logs to /var/log/mylog.log, will that get rotated,
>or, where do I enrol it , should I wish to have it rotated (and I probably
>do not, it writes one entry per day)

usually it's a tool called logrotate, if you have it installed it runs out
of cron nightly and is configured by /etc/logrotate.conf and the files in
/etc/logrotate.d/

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Re: [SLUG] do all logs in /var/log get rotated, or where is that ?

[Kevin Saenz]

You have a psudo deamon called logrotate.d  it's a cron job that runs on 
a daily basis and reads the
config files in both /etc/ and /etc/logrotate.d/ directories.

what motivates various log files in /var/log to be rotated ?
if I have a script that logs to /var/log/mylog.log, will that get rotated,
or, where do I enrol it , should I wish to have it rotated (and I probably
do not, it writes one entry per day)
 

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[SLUG] do all logs in /var/log get rotated, or where is that ?

[Voytek]

what motivates various log files in /var/log to be rotated ?

if I have a script that logs to /var/log/mylog.log, will that get rotated,
or, where do I enrol it , should I wish to have it rotated (and I probably
do not, it writes one entry per day)


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