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> I hear all this talk on the list about log rotating... And I've found
> mail in my root's mailbox that certain logs are unable to be rotated. SMB
> in particular. Why is this? What funciton actually handles the log file
> rotation? What exactly is this rotation? And is there any "standard
> sysadmin" way of rotating these logs? Whew... probably too many
> questions, all answered by one asnwer. Any suggestions or ideas would be
> helpful :-)
Redhat (and probably other distributions) comes with the logrotate package,
which contains the logrotate(8) utility.
On Redhat, logrotate is configured to be run from cron on a daily basis,
you can find the daily scripts in /etc/cron.daily -- specificly the script
logrotate, which calls the logrotate(8) command.
Other things of interest (other than the manpages for these commands) would
be the /etc/logrotate.conf file, and the /etc/logrotate.d directory.
These files and directories describe what files get rotated, when, and how
it's done.
As for why some logfiles can't be rotated, I would think you'd have to
investigate that on your system.
hope this helps...
k
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