Re: [Plug] Log rotating

["Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

When you say something like logrotate(8), is the 8 the directory in the man 
pages where it occurs? & if so, what determines this? It doesn't appear to 
be aalphabetical or anything.

       -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org


If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
89. After I captures the hero's superweapon, I will not immediately disband 
my
legions and relax my guard because I believe whoever holds the weapon is
unstoppable. After all, the hero held the weapon and I took it from him.
       -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, 
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html


> From: Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> To: Philadelphia Linux Users Group <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
> Subject: Re: [Plug] Log rotating
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:32:04 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of 
> a
> divorce.
>     -- Don Quinn
> mortis@voicenet.com                            
> http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plug maillist  -  Plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

_______________________________________________
Plug maillist  -  Plug@lists.nothinbut.net
http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug