Re: [gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

[Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>]

Hi,

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:46:36 +0000
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks HW, this is what logrotate -d shows re. portage logs:
> ================================
> # logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf
> [snip...]
> rotating pattern: /var/log/portage/*.log
>  weekly (1 rotations)
> [snip...]
> considering log /var/log/portage/4053-xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6.log
>   log does not need rotating
> [snip...]
> ================================

Hm, I've never fiddled with logrotate around so much, but if I'm not
misinterpreting the man page, you can rotate based on the age of a file
using the directive "maxage <days>". The "weekly" rotation seems to
have some state saving and checking on which rotation is based on.

> I don't know if you can see something amiss above.  I guess I can wait
> for a week and see if this problem recurs.

You could cheat and use "hwclock" ;-) (if you do, don't forget
"--noadjtime" or your clock will skip drastically on each next reboot)

-hwh
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