logrotate

[Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch>]

Hi debs

On the subject of logrotate, how do you guys put that to use? For me,
root has a crontab entry for this as follows:

# At midday: logrotate
0 12 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf

My /etc/logrotate.conf looks as follows: (shortened - sorry for it being
so long)

-- /etc/logrotate.conf --
weekly
rotate 4
errors root
create
compress
include /etc/logrotate.d
/var/log/wtmp {
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}
/var/log/btmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}
# system-specific logs may be configured here
/var/log/messages {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
    postrotate
    	/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
    endscript
}
/var/log/syslog {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
    postrotate
    	/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
    endscript
}
/var/log/exim/mainlog {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}
-- /etc/logrotate.conf --

Is that the way it's supposed to be done? :)

TIA
-- 
S. Burgener
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