Re: /var/log/syslog

[Martin Kacerovsky <wizard@matfyz.cz>]

> 
> hello
Hi,
> 
> Can someone tell me how to automatically backup and compress
> /var/log/syslog into gzip format or something. Aparently my computer did
> this for sometime but then stoped doing it and now the file ir over
> 3megabyte. 
see /etc/crontab whether /etc/cron.daily is searched for tasks
see /etc/cron.daily whether the file sysklogd resides here
view /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd whether it handles /var/log/syslog
...there should be :
.......
test -x /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles || exit 0

cd /var/log
for LOG in `syslogd-listfiles`
do
   if [ -s $LOG ]; then
      savelog -g adm -m 640 -u root -c 7 $LOG >/dev/null
   fi
done

for LOG in `syslogd-listfiles --auth`
do
   if [ -s $LOG ]; then
      chown root.adm $LOG
      chmod o-rwx $LOG
   fi
done

# Restart syslogd
#
/etc/init.d/sysklogd reload
.....
(see man syslogd
man savelog)
try command: syslogd-listfiles
it should write: /var/log/syslog

I hope this helps...
> 
> 
> 
> regards
> J.A.Serralheiro
> 
> 
> 
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at the Charles University in Prague, in the Czech Republic, in Europe, 
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