On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:54:36AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > I discovered that on my system these weren't rotated (!) by default. > Should the kernel package be doing this? Logrotate? Syslog?.... I discovered exactly the same problem on one of my machines the other day. In my case none of these files had been rotated for months, i'm glad it's not a busy machine... The reason this happened, for me, was because I replaced sysklogd with inetutils-syslogd. The sysklogd package has cron.weekly and cron.daily scripts which do all the log rotation whereas the inetutils-syslogd package has none at all. I think it would have been nice to have some warning this would happen and possibly at least some example scripts or suggestions on how to rotate the files. Personally I solved the problem by moving back to sysklogd. Stephen Quinney
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