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/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
