Re: logrotate still not workin
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 15:12, nate wrote:
> i sent this once, and didn't see a reply, i have some
> followup info to the original message.
>
> I changed /etc/logrotate.conf :
> /var/log/radacct/ras-ca/detail {
> size=10000k
> create 0664 root adm
> rotate 10
> postrotate
> /etc/init.d/radiusd restart
> endscript
> }
>
> which should limit rotations of that particular file
> to when it gets to 10MB. i did this on Sept 12 as
> noted by the date/time stamp on /etc/logrotate.conf
> it did not have any effect:
> backup-wa:/var/log/radacct/ras-ca# ls -l
> total 12
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Sep 15 06:38 detail
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 3963 Sep 14 21:05 detail.0
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 697 Sep 14 01:50 detail.1.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 1356 Sep 12 20:45 detail.2.gz
>
> as you can see .......its been rotated at least 3 times
> since i made the change. anyone have an idea on how to
> get this working? or if all else fails how to get logrotate
> to just ignore those logs totally and i can rotate them
> manually? it really screws up my ability to generate stats
> if the files are rotated so often!! argh.
Dumb question for you, but you have logrotate set to not run
daily/weekly etc in the global part of the config file do you? That
could be overriding the size limits you want it to follow.
--mike
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