Re: Log rotation in Debian /var/log
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:31:28PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> [...]
> I mean, I know about logrotate and I ass-u-me that the logs in /var/log
> are rotated using logrotate... no?
>
> When I look in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate I see an invocation of
> logrotate with the config file /etc/logratate.conf. All well and good.
>
> But, there is no entry in /etc/logrotate.conf that pertains to the
> general contents of /var/log! It does /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/btmp
> and that's it.
>
> How are the rest of the log files getting rotated? Is this built into
> logrotate somehow so it doesn't need to be configured? Or what?
> [...]
Most of the system files are being rotated by sysklogd.
Regards,
Andreas.
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