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Re: [PLUG] Testing logrotate
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Really? I though you would need to set up something in cronjob. The man
page says this: "Normally, logrotate is run as a daily cron job"
LOGROTATE(8)
Naresh.
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 epike@isinet.com wrote:
> no i wouldnt do that.....
> setup /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d properly.
> there are schedules in logrotate.d properly (weekly,daily,etc).
>
> logrotate itself is already being called (somehow) by cron.
>
> jondz
>
>
> >
> > Cool! I got it working. Would you put the same entry in the crontab, for
> > example.
> >
> > 0 0 1 * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
> >
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Naresh
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 epike@isinet.com wrote:
> >
> > > logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf will do it, but it will
> > > do a forced logrotation. So if your schedule is weekly,
> > > all those logs will rotate right now.
> > >
> > > I use this since I dont mind a forced rotation anyway.
> > >
> > > e pike
> > >
> > > >
> > > > i have very large log files, so I decided to setup logrotate. I believe I
> > > > set up everything up fine, and now I want to test it. What is the best way
> > > > to do this, so I know its working.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Naresh
> > >
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