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Re: logrotate question



"Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler" <hurschler@gmx.de> writes:

> I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log, and 
> debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb).

I don't have a "debug.log" file on my system. Do you mean "debug"?

> I looked in logrotate.conf and logrotate.d, but didn't find anything
> that would rotate these files. Aren't these files rotated in a
> "standard" installation?

They are rotated by "/etc/cron.daily/sysklogd".

> I also noticed that the logrotate entry in cron.daily only points at
> logrotate.conf, but what about the logrotate.d entries, how do they
> get loaded?

"logrotate.conf" should contain the configuration directive
"include /etc/logrotate.d".

Martin



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