Re: keep sendmail logs longer?
<quote who="Carlos Sousa">
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:02:11 -0400 (EDT) Richard A Nelson
> <cowboy@debian.org> wrote:
> Your email spurred me to do a more in-depth probing of the
> syslog/savelog way of rotating logs, and, frankly, I'm appalled.
i was too last year when i found it out for myself:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg02108.html
(can't find my postings about mail.log for last year ..)
took me quite a while to track it down. whats worse though, is radius
for example also has it's own log rotation scheme, which took
a while to disable that too, since i wanted logs rotated monthly
not daily/weekly. i was/am still confused because logrotate
is a base package, that is, when i do an install, i do not
tell it to install anything(simple install, when i get to
tasksel, i just hit FINISH) and logrotate is installed. and
yet it didn't seem to get used ..*sigh* looks like woody makes
better use of logrotate (yay)
>
> This setup (and I'm purely speculating here) reeks of the primordial soup
> of the unix conception era, and makes little sense in an age when
> programs like logrotate are available.
not so bad i think..some unix systems don't rotate logs at all,
for example one solaris system i have here has a wtmpx (used
for the 'last' command) that has data going back to the start
of the year. actually now that i look at it, it looks like it
goes back to the start of last year, when i installed the system,
but it doesn't show years on the log entries. another log,
named sulog has entries from jan 27(probably when i switched
it over so it'd use my new syslog server)
i just wish it was better known, took me forever to track this
stuff down.
im so glad i switched and am using syslog-ng with a dedicated
server :)
nate
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