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Man pages are broken into sections based on their content and the
commands/concepts they describe.
Look at the manpage for "man" for details (i.e. do "man man").
- khill
Nick R wrote:
>
> 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
> >
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