On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:12:56AM +0530, Agnello George wrote:
> On 3/4/08, Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 17:54, Agnello George wrote:
> > > hi
> > >
> > > I have set up a spamassissin server . I need to rotate the logs in
> > > the /var/log/spamd.log file . I added the following directives in the
> > > /etc/logrotate.conf
> > >
> > > # system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
> > > # added by agnello 4 march 08
> > > /var/log/spamd.log {
> > > weekly
> > > compress
> > > rotate 4
> > > }
> > >
> > > Well i jsut want to verify what "rotate 4" really means --- according
> > > to the man pages it says "The number of times to rotate a logfile
> > > before removing it."
> > >
> > Sounds pretty straight forward to me - you get the log set:
> > log
> > log.1
> > log.2
> > log.3
> > log.4
> >
> So what would happen after "log.4" . would it get deleted frm the system??
Yes, everything ripples down like this:
log.3 becomes log.4 (the old log.4 falls into the bit bucket)
log,2 becomes log.3
log.1 becomes log.2
log becomes log.1
and a new log is created.
> --
> Regards
> Agnello Dsouza
> www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com
> www.bible-study-india.blogspot.com
Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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