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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 22:28:07 -0600
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
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Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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
>

The script does but if you don't have a cron package installed, nothing
will run to rotate the logs.  Maybe my message wasn't worded correctly? 
It's been a long week.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)