This is good advice. logrotate actually copies the contents of each .# log file to the next highest number as it rotates the logs. For heavily loaded production systems or systems with slow disk i/o, this can make it grind to a halt. logrotate has caused a couple of my less hardy systems to crash.
If you need to keep historic log files, a rotation system that date stamps and compresses works well. Thanks, -jrr > Check each of the directories that are being rotated and each of the > files. Look for a directory with lots of files or a very, very large > file. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
