Re: Error with logrotate.
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Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 August 2019 02:24:34 deloptes wrote:
> [...]
>> I am not aware of any program I've been using
>> for the past 15y that would have a problem writing in /var/log
>
> Then tell me how fetchmail, procmail, clamav or spamd running as me, can
> keep their logs in /var/log, the permissions just aren't there after a
> reboot.
Aren't all four of those system services; with their own system users,
with their own directories in /var/log (or well, at least by default)?
>> [...]
>> Logrotate also does not need to be modified - only for your custom
>> stuff, so it is expected and desired and it is easy to adjust.
>
> Maybe for someone intimately fam with how it works, not so easy on a
> onetime basis after an install. One doesn't get familiar enough, nor
> manage to commit it to short term memory.
Assuming a Debian-standard /etc/logrotate.conf; it should give one the
necessary examples to set up a functioning schedule for things in their
$HOME (or other places).
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