Re: [Plug] Log rotating

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Yes, the number is for the section...the one's I can remember (and these
are not exactly correct) are:

1 - user level commands
2 - C system functions (user kernel api, operating system functions)
3 - C library functions (like libc - eg: printf)
4 - Special Files - like device files
5 - system and configuraiton files, subsystems documentation (like ipc)
6 - I'm not sure, it's probaly user docs -- my system has stuff like
    game man pages, and svgalib manpages here...
7 - more system programing documentaion, and other system documentation
8 - system utilities [sbin binaries], and stuff that's usualy only run 
    by superuser
l - nonstandard, looks like it's used by postgress
n - nonstandard, looks like it's used by tcl

k

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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, 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.
> 
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> >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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