also sprach andrew <andrew@2sheds.de> [2005.05.12.1750 +0200]: > I have been looking for the last 2 days, and still haven't worked out > why logrotate on a standard sarge installation rotates all files in > /var/log. I have created a new log file in syslog that outputs to > /var/log/local1.log. As I am using swatch to watch this file, I do not > want it rotataed, but somehow logrotate still manages to rotate it. How > do I turn off this feature in logrotate for this one file?! It's not logrotate but /etc/cron.*/sysklogd which rotates the file. Unfortunately I know of no way to disable it. sysklog does its own rotation of all files referenced from /etc/syslog.conf, and Debian is not using logrotate for those because only the current solution allows the system to automatically rotate any user-specified log files. This acclaimed feature is what is biting you. One solution would be to replace sysklogd by syslog-ng, which works just fine (better anyway) and which does not attempt to do what logrotate can do. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! "god is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -- voltaire
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