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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
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On Sunday 22 February 2015 20:57:43 Dale wrote:
> I think you need this:
> 
> app-admin/logrotate
> 
> Then I think a cron package is needed to run that, set to daily here I
> think.

It comes with logrotate:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate

-- 
Rgds
Peter.