Re: help needed to setup logrotate

[Justin Guerin <justin_guerin@yahoo.com>]

Hello Peter,

Peter Colton wrote:

> hello all,
> 
>        I would be gratefull for some help in how do I manage the log out
>        put
> of a demon that I am running. The demon in question is Bttrack  T-0.3.13
> (BitTornado), running on a sarge install at home on a adsl line. The out
> put
> logs are directed to /var/log/bttrack.log  What I want to do with this log
> file is to have 7 days worth of out put that rotates from  bttrack.log.0
> to bttrack.log.6 and for the logs from bttrack.log.1 tbttrack.log.6 to be
> compressed to  .gz format. and the bttrack.log.0 to be uncompressed.
> 
> I been trying to get syslog or logrotate to do the job but no luck yet. 
> In the dir /etc/logrotate.d I added the file bttrack and in that file I
> placed the lines :
> 
> /var/log/bttrack.log {
>         rotate 7
>         daily
>         monthly
          ^^^^^^^ I think your problem is here.  The monthly directive
overrides the daily directive.
>         compress
>         missingok
> }
> 
>  With the idea that this would do the job, but no luck again. I had
>  similar
> attempts with configuring /etc/syslog.conf to manage the log out put of
> bttrack but again no joy there as well. I have been reading up on what I
> should be doing but I still can not see what the method is yet.
> 
> So any positave adive well be more than well and any pointers to some
> howto links.
> 
>                  Regards
> 
> peter colton

Justin