Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On my Woody system, there's nothing in /etc/logrotate.d
> except the file for the base-config. Yet, looking at
> /var/log shows that syslog, messages, daemon.log user.log,
> and other stuff are clearly being rotated.
It turns out that logrotate isn't actually used for much of
anything. There are a whole bunch of individual cron.daily
jobs that rotate log files for various packages (generally
using the "savelog" program).
Needless to say, this approach makes administration of log
files a royal pain, since there are a whole bunch of individual
scripts that have to be modified instead of just changing the
configuration for logrotate.
Since logrotate is an "important" package, I don't think it
would be a big problem if packagers depended on it for rotating
logs rather than installing individual cron.daily jobs. If
everybody used logrotate, it would make system administration
easier.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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