From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:11:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508031311.24650.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508031154.57143.uwix@iway.na>
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:54, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> from /etc/logrotate.conf:
>
> -----
> # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
> /var/log/wtmp {
> monthly
> create 0664 root utmp
> rotate 1
> }
> -----
>
> It states it rotates lastlog (/var/log/lastlog) but it doesn't and my
> lastlog grows forever. Doesn't seem right. Anybody else seeing the
> same or have I messed up?
Probably missing something (I don't use logrotate), but seems to me that
the above fragment only deals with /var/log/wtmp. To
have /var/log/lastlog rotated, add another section for it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-03 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-03 10:54 [gentoo-user] logrotate Uwe Thiem
2005-08-03 11:11 ` Etaoin Shrdlu [this message]
2005-08-03 14:10 ` Uwe Thiem
2005-08-03 14:32 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2005-08-04 12:54 ` Richard Fish
[not found] <6b16fb4c0809260048jb340d36qf5175e272f09b140@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-26 7:49 ` Kaushal Shriyan
2008-09-27 7:10 ` Alan McKinnon
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