Re: What controls the rotation of "/var/log/auth.log"?

[Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>]

On Monday 13 September 2004 12:50, Florian Ernst wrote:

> You mean it is rotated daily?
> 
> | $ tail -n 11 /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd
> | for LOG in `syslogd-listfiles --auth`
> | do
> |    if [ -f $LOG ]; then
> |       chown root:adm $LOG
> |       chmod o-rwx $LOG
> |    fi
> | done
> | 
> | # Restart syslogd
> | #
> | /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload-or-restart > /dev/null
> | $ /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles --auth
> | /var/log/auth.log

Thanks.  I didn't that syslog had its own rotation scheme.