Re: [Plug] Log rotating

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Heh, the moral of the story here might be use 'man -a'.  That way you
get to see all the relevant pages...

k


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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> >         -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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