On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:25:24AM +0200, Henrik Christian Grove wrote:
| "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> writes:
|
| > I have a few applications that create log files in my home directory. Is
| > there a (simple) way to use logrotate as a normal user?
|
| I see no reason that logrotate should require special privileges
Correct.
| for any but reading and writing it's state file, so try something
| like:
|
| logrotate -s ~/private-logrotate-status ~/private-logrotate.conf
Put this in your personal crontab ('crontab -e'). My (personal)
crontab entry looks like
# rotate personal logs
@daily /usr/sbin/logrotate --state $HOME/etc/logrotate.status $HOME/etc/logrotate.conf
It works well.
-D
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