Re: Sysklogd Rotation

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Andrew Miehs wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I have added a file to my syslog config for storing local1.log. I now  
> wanted to go about
> rotating it every day, and storing 32 files (and only this file).
> 
> After looking at /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd I am starting to wonder  
> whether this is
> really sensible - or whether I should start looking at syslog-ng?!

You can do what you want with sysklogd.  The default, however, is to
not rotate log files on a daily basis unless then grow too large.
However, adding the "-s pattern" commandline to the execution of
syslogd-listfiles you can filter out the files you want to handle
separately.  Don't forget to actualy handle them separately.

Regards,

	Joey

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