logrotate question

2006-02-23 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, Not so far I had a problem with disc space and it turned out that syslog and one more log file occupied together multiple gigabytes so I found out that logrotate could help me. The thing is that I don't know what they mean by rotating files, could you tell me?

Re: logrotate question

2006-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
Andras Lorincz wrote: Hi, Not so far I had a problem with disc space and it turned out that syslog and one more log file occupied together multiple gigabytes so I found out that logrotate could help me. The thing is that I don't know what they mean by rotating files, could you tell me? It

Re: logrotate question

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Brandstetter
Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate partition so that if it does become full you still have access to your system, and it will mostly still function as normal. On 2/23/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andras Lorincz wrote: Hi, Not so far I had a

Re: logrotate question

2006-02-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:27 +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: Hi, Not so far I had a problem with disc space and it turned out that syslog and one more log file occupied together multiple gigabytes so I found out that logrotate could help me. The thing is that I don't know what they mean by

Re: logrotate question

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Schurter
Chris Brandstetter wrote: Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate partition so that if it does become full you still have access to your system, and it will mostly still function as normal. While this is common practice, I question its usefulness because most variable

Re: logrotate question

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Brandstetter
You are correct. I appologize for my error. :-) On 2/23/06, Michael Schurter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Brandstetter wrote: Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate partition so that if it does become full you still have access to your system, and it will

Re: logrotate question

2006-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:12, Michael Schurter wrote: Chris Brandstetter wrote: Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate partition so that if it does become full you still have access to your system, and it will mostly still function as normal. While this is

logrotate question

2004-02-10 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
Hi, I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log, and debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb). I looked in logrotate.conf and logrotate.d, but didn't find anything that would rotate these files. Aren't these files rotated in a standard installation? I also

Re: logrotate question

2004-02-10 Thread Martin Dickopp
Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log, and debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb). I don't have a debug.log file on my system. Do you mean debug? I looked in logrotate.conf and logrotate.d, but didn't find

Re: logrotate question

2004-02-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log, and debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb). I looked in logrotate.conf and logrotate.d, but didn't find anything that would rotate these files. Aren't these

Re: logrotate question

2004-02-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 13:45, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: Hi, I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log, and debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb). Yeah, I've also run into trouble like this. I tried to avoid some problems by adding # Rotate logs

Fwd: Re: logrotate question

2004-02-10 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 14:20 schrieb Martin Dickopp: Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log, and debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb). I don't have a debug.log file on my system. Do you mean debug?

logrotate question/problem

2001-09-12 Thread nate
I'm tryin to get logrotate to not rotate my radius logs until they are about 10MB in size. in /etc/logrotate.conf i HAD this: /var/log/radacct/* { size=1k create 0664 root adm rotate 10 postrotate /etc/init.d/radiusd restart