Re: logrotate question
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:27 +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not so far I had a problem with disc space and it turned out that
> syslog and one more log file occupied together multiple gigabytes so I
> found out that logrotate could help me. The thing is that I don't know
> what they mean by rotating files, could you tell me?
If your system is not on during the 24h of the day, you should install
anacron too. If the system is off when logrotate should rotate the log
files, then they grows forever. anacron takes care of this when you turn
on the machine the next time you use it.
Cheers
Marcelo
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Marcelo Chiapparini
chiappa@oi.com.br
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