Re: A question about logrotate

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Hans Hofker wrote:
> Thomas H. George wrote:
>
> > I ran out of space in a 9 Gbyte /var directory, most of the space 
> > consumed by debug, kern.log and syslog files.
>
>
> ...
>
> > As I noted above, the files were being rotated but not according to 
> > the logrotate.conf file so there must be a default somewhere.  Where?
>
>
> On my system, the logfile rotation is configured in 
> /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd
> and /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd
>
>
> Regards,
> Hans.
Have you looked in /etc/logrotate.d/?  I have specific entries for these 
items.  I think the default was to rotate weekly or monthly which I 
changed to daily on my setup.

HTH

Wackojacko