From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H8I4j-0008Jx-EW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:24:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0KFN2kR007484; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:23:02 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0KFIXV3006727 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:18:33 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id C573B108DB4; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:18:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dslb-082-083-058-076.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.83.58.76]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D18F1DC9 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:18:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:24:52 +0100 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs Message-Id: <20070120162452.3f938cea.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <200701200034.26955.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <358eca8f0701151132v6ef24209paa43700aa6d47f8f@mail.gmail.com> <200701200034.26955.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Details: No, hits=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Archives-Salt: 21b34ee9-7391-445c-965b-4be4fe3773a9 X-Archives-Hash: 1b0e8f88f77b3e50d5771418d485f72d Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:34:24 +0000 Mick wrote: > > I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will > > not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The > > /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen: > [...] > Anyone? Anything I could look into? Hm, "logrotate -d"? How's logrotate being called? E.g. if it's cron, what cron daemon are you using? E.g. fcron and dcron don't support a system wide crontab in /etc/crontab, so things in /etc/cron.* won't ever be called. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list