Michael Zoet wrote: > To make things worse: there are many different syslog > implementations... I stopped keeping track of them and their features...
Yeah, just checked on Fedora and there's no script in cron.* for syslog to rotate stuff on it's own. True, it's syslog-ng installed over there. Not to start a philosophy session, but personally I like logrotate to do the rotation job, syslog should just write stuff in files. > I think you should also read the syslog documentation. I can not tell The funny thing is, there's no mention about rotating stuff in man syslog.conf, or man sysklogd, or man syslogd... that's what got me confused. Then there's that Debian readme in logrotate package (that's why I thought about all this being some Debian trick). Mentioning this in logrotate.conf would be nice also, because you don't see it by default, you're just assuming logrotate takes care of everything (at least I assumed that, coming from Redhat/Fedora). Anyway, for a quick fix I purged the sysklogd package, and installed syslog-ng which _doesn't_ have any rotating "skills" (none installed by default anyway), and leaves it all to logrotate. I'm already sorry I picked at this syslog issue :) should've left it alone, but I do like to keep the logfiles clean and tidy, one never knows. Maybe I should not have just assumed that it will work exactly like on Redhat*. -- Imre Gergely Yahoo!: gergelyimre ICQ#: 101510959 MSN: gergely_imre GoogleTalk: gergelyimre gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 0x34525305 -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
