Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate

[Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 16:10, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> Are you sure you aren't using it? Have you looked into
> /etc/cron.daily?

Yes, I'm sure. 

# emerge -s logrotate

*  app-admin/logrotate
      Latest version available: 3.7.1-r1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 31 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gentoo.org
      Description: Rotates, compresses, and mails system logs
      License:     GPL-2

# ls /etc/cron.daily/
slocate  syslog.cron

where syslog.cron is _not_ part of logrotate, but is instead a script (I 
suppose it comes with sysklogd, but I'm not sure) whose purpose, as the 
name says, is to rotate syslog's files. 
Following the comments in it, I modified it to rotate all the files 
in /var/log (it's easy, here are the instructions:

# sysklogd  Cron script to rotate system log files daily.
#
#   If you want to rotate other logfiles daily, edit
#   this script.  An easy way is to add them manually
#   or to add -a to syslogd-listfiles and add some grep
#   stuff
#
#   Written by Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>.
)

This does the job for me, without the need to use the "real" logrotate 
app.
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