From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:37:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130391427.10785.72.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130306289.10171.3.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com>
syslog-ng does.
bunyip ~ # ls /etc/logrotate.d
apache2 hibernate-script mysql scrollkeeper syslog-ng
bunyip ~ # qpkg -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng
app-admin/syslog-ng *
bunyip ~ #
so you just need to check the file is present, install logrotate and sit
back and watch it happen.
BillK
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 07:58 +0200, Heinz Sporn wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar:
> > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked....
> > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can
> > reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng
> > config that was emerged by gentoo instalation.
>
> I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script
> in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a
> similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate.
>
> >
> > Thanks, Allan
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-27 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-25 20:12 [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-10-25 20:42 ` John Jolet
2005-10-26 0:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-26 0:30 ` Richard Fish
2005-10-26 0:34 ` Mark Shields
2005-10-26 3:16 ` Rumen Yotov
2005-10-26 5:58 ` Heinz Sporn
2005-10-27 5:37 ` W.Kenworthy [this message]
2005-10-27 11:06 ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-10-26 6:08 ` z3rosix
2005-10-26 6:15 ` Tomas Jankovic
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