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Re: logrotate question



Hello

Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler (<hurschler@gmx.de>) wrote:

> I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log,
> and debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb). 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? 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?     
> 
> I'd like to rotate these three files, someone please point me to
> someplace with the appropriate settings to do this.

They are rotated here (on Woody). Make sure the cron jobs are run. If
your system is not up and running 24/7, install anacron.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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