[gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

[gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

[Harry Putnam]

Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on
either size or age?

I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to
rotate on more than one condition.

I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more
than 12 rotations for whatever reason.

/var/log/debug.log {
   create 0600 reader wheel
    weekly || size=7000k
    rotate 12
    postrotate
      /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
    endscript
}

Is clearly NOT the right way to go.

Any know how to do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

[Dale]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on
> either size or age?
>
> I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to
> rotate on more than one condition.
>
> I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more
> than 12 rotations for whatever reason.
>
> /var/log/debug.log {
>    create 0600 reader wheel
>     weekly || size=7000k
>     rotate 12
>     postrotate
>       /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
>     endscript
> }
>
> Is clearly NOT the right way to go.
>
> Any know how to do it?
>   

man logrotate has a few examples that may help.  Here is one.

       "/var/log/httpd/access.log" /var/log/httpd/error.log {
           rotate 5
           mail www@my.org
           size 100k
           sharedscripts
           postrotate
               /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
           endscript
       }


I notice that the size part is on its own line which may be the issue.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 21 December 2009 05:52:55 Dale wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on
> > either size or age?
> >
> > I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to
> > rotate on more than one condition.
> >
> > I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more
> > than 12 rotations for whatever reason.
> >
> > /var/log/debug.log {
> >    create 0600 reader wheel
> >     weekly || size=7000k
> >     rotate 12
> >     postrotate
> >       /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
> >     endscript
> > }
> >
> > Is clearly NOT the right way to go.
> >
> > Any know how to do it?
> 
> man logrotate has a few examples that may help.  Here is one.
> 
>        "/var/log/httpd/access.log" /var/log/httpd/error.log {
>            rotate 5
>            mail www@my.org
>            size 100k
>            sharedscripts
>            postrotate
>                /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
>            endscript
>        }
> 
> 
> I notice that the size part is on its own line which may be the issue.

That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to 100k.
The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain size, or every 
week, whichever comes first.

Logrotate does not support that feature.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

[gentoo-user] Re: [lame logrotate Q]

[reader]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:

>> I notice that the size part is on its own line which may be the issue.
>
> That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to 100k.
> The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain size, or every 
> week, whichever comes first.
>
> Logrotate does not support that feature.

Thanks Alan... saved me dicking around with it endlessly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [lame logrotate Q]

[Mick]

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On Monday 21 December 2009 16:14:50 reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
> >> I notice that the size part is on its own line which may be the issue.
> >
> > That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to
> > 100k. The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain size,
> > or every week, whichever comes first.
> >
> > Logrotate does not support that feature.
> 
> Thanks Alan... saved me dicking around with it endlessly.

There is a default setting that determines how often files will be rotated if 
you set this up the top of /etc/logrotate.conf:

# rotate log files weekly
weekly

This can be overwritten on a file by file basis; e.g.:
===========================================================
# no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}
===========================================================

If you intend to use a different rotating frequency for your file in question 
then you may want to try this:
===========================================================
/var/log/debug.log 
{
   create 0600 reader wheel
    rotate 12
    weekly
    size=7000k
    postrotate
      /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
    endscript
}
===========================================================

As far as I know when either the period of one week, or a file size of 7000k 
is reached the file will be rotated (by whichever condition is met first).  
Keep an eye on it and play with the file size to confirm that it works for 
you.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

[Christian Könitzer]

Hi list,

I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few 
days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
emerge -DuN world
Calculating dependencies... done!

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
(dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])
(dependency required by "world" [argument])


And eix tells me:
  eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
[D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
      Available versions:  [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s 
[m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s 
[m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s 
[m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk 
kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
      Installed versions:  71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk 
kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
      Homepage:            http://www.nvidia.com/
      Description:         NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries

and:
eix x11-base/xorg-server
[I] x11-base/xorg-server
      Available versions:  1.5.3-r6 1.6.3.901-r2 1.6.5-r1 ~1.7.3 
~1.7.3.901 ~1.7.3.901-r1 {3dfx debug dmx hal input_devices_acecad 
input_devices_aiptek input_devices_citron input_devices_elographics 
input_devices_evdev input_devices_fpit input_devices_hyperpen 
input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse 
input_devices_mutouch input_devices_penmount input_devices_synaptics 
input_devices_tslib input_devices_virtualbox input_devices_vmmouse 
input_devices_void input_devices_wacom ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl sdl 
tslib video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ast video_cards_chips 
video_cards_cirrus video_cards_dummy video_cards_epson video_cards_fbdev 
video_cards_geode video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 
video_cards_impact video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64 video_cards_mga 
video_cards_neomagic video_cards_newport video_cards_nv 
video_cards_nvidia video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon 
video_cards_radeonhd video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 
video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion 
video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_sunbw2 
video_cards_suncg14 video_cards_suncg3 video_cards_suncg6 
video_cards_sunffb video_cards_sunleo video_cards_suntcx 
video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng 
video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_via video_cards_virtualbox 
video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo video_cards_xgi xorg}
      Installed versions:  1.6.5-r1(09:35:40 12.12.2009)(hal nptl sdl 
xorg -debug -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -tslib)
      Homepage:            http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
      Description:         X.Org X servers


As descriped by the user guid I'm not doing wrong:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml

In /etc/portage/package.mask i added:
...
 >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.28
 >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.13
 >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-87.00
...

In /etc/portage/package.keywords I added:
...
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86
...

So for me it looks like the xorg server which is required by my 
nvidia-card (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11) isn't longer in the 
portage-tree...

Don't know what to do now - do I need to buy a newer graphiccard? :O ;) 
Hopefully not...
cheers Chris

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

[walt]

On 12/21/2009 08:48 AM, Christian Könitzer wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
> emerge -DuN world
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])

Hm.  I used that driver until very recently, when my brother-in-law
upgraded his video card and gave the old one for free.  His timing
is not usually that good.  :o)

You can still use the nv driver, if that's adequate for your needs.

If the nv driver isn't good enough, then I'd say it's time upgrade your
video card after all these years.  I never really noticed any difference
between the nvidia and nv drivers when I still used the old TNT card.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

[Christian Könitzer]

After reading what overlays are I decided to unmerge my nvidia drivers 
and use the nv driver instead.
Thanks for all your answers! :-)

Am 21.12.2009 22:38, schrieb walt:
> On 12/21/2009 08:48 AM, Christian Könitzer wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few 
>> days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
>> emerge -DuN world
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
>> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" 
>> [installed])
>
> Hm.  I used that driver until very recently, when my brother-in-law
> upgraded his video card and gave the old one for free.  His timing
> is not usually that good.  :o)
>
> You can still use the nv driver, if that's adequate for your needs.
>
> If the nv driver isn't good enough, then I'd say it's time upgrade your
> video card after all these years.  I never really noticed any difference
> between the nvidia and nv drivers when I still used the old TNT card.
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
> days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
> emerge -DuN world
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> 
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])
> (dependency required by "world" [argument])
> 
> 
> And eix tells me:
>   eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
> [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>       Available versions:  [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
> [m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
> [m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
> [m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
> kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
>       Installed versions:  71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
> kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
>       Homepage:            http://www.nvidia.com/
>       Description:         NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries

Your version of nvidia-drivers is listed as hardmasked in 
profiles/package.mask:

# Mask nvidia-drivers-71.x.y since it will not work
# with xorg-server-1.5 and later which are the only
# available versions in the tree
<x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-72.0.0

You will need to find an ebuild for the version of xorg you need in an overlay 
somewhere, or search the gentoo attic

You'll have to google for the URL for the attic, it's one of those things I 
can never remember...

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote:
>   
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
>> days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
>> emerge -DuN world
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
>> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])
>> (dependency required by "world" [argument])
>>
>>
>> And eix tells me:
>>   eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>> [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>>       Available versions:  [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
>> [m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
>> [m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
>> [m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
>> kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
>>       Installed versions:  71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
>> kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
>>       Homepage:            http://www.nvidia.com/
>>       Description:         NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
>>     
>
> Your version of nvidia-drivers is listed as hardmasked in 
> profiles/package.mask:
>
> # Mask nvidia-drivers-71.x.y since it will not work
> # with xorg-server-1.5 and later which are the only
> # available versions in the tree
> <x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-72.0.0
>
> You will need to find an ebuild for the version of xorg you need in an overlay 
> somewhere, or search the gentoo attic
>
> You'll have to google for the URL for the attic, it's one of those things I 
> can never remember...
>
>   

Is this it?

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

[Christian Könitzer]

I don't think this is it...

Am 21.12.2009 23:24, schrieb Dale:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
>>> days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
>>> emerge -DuN world
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
>>> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" 
>>> [installed])
>>> (dependency required by "world" [argument])
>>>
>>>
>>> And eix tells me:
>>>   eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>>> [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>>>       Available versions:  [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
>>> [m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
>>> [m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
>>> [m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
>>> kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
>>>       Installed versions:  71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
>>> kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
>>>       Homepage:            http://www.nvidia.com/
>>>       Description:         NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
>>
>> Your version of nvidia-drivers is listed as hardmasked in 
>> profiles/package.mask:
>>
>> # Mask nvidia-drivers-71.x.y since it will not work
>> # with xorg-server-1.5 and later which are the only
>> # available versions in the tree
>> <x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-72.0.0
>>
>> You will need to find an ebuild for the version of xorg you need in 
>> an overlay somewhere, or search the gentoo attic
>>
>> You'll have to google for the URL for the attic, it's one of those 
>> things I can never remember...
>>
>
> Is this it?
>
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:42:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> That will rotate his log when it gets to 100k, and only when it gets to
> 100k. The OP wants to rotate when either the log file is a certain
> size, or every week, whichever comes first.
> 
> Logrotate does not support that feature.

What happens if you set up two separate rules, one to rotate at 100K and
one at 7 days?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Gravity isn't easy, but it's the law.

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