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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what pgm is rotating my /var/log/syslog, etc. files?
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 22:51:50
Message-Id: 3168226.hSVbd6V1XX@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] what pgm is rotating my /var/log/syslog, etc. files? by n952162
1 On Tuesday, 20 August 2019 01:05:37 BST n952162 wrote:
2 > I have two gentoo machines, my primary one and one I cloned off of that.
3 >
4 > The original gentoo machine has lots of nice /var/log/syslog.1.gz, etc.
5 > files.
6 >
7 > The clone has one big /var/log/syslog file.
8 >
9 > I now have logrotate installed in both machines. I see that the
10 > original has cronie installed and an /etc/cron.daily/logrotate file, but
11 > that corresponding /etc/logrotate configuration file does not list any
12 > of the important syslog, kern.log, etc files.
13 >
14 > When I do as /etc/cron.daily/logrotate does:
15 >
16 > sudo /usr/bin/logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf
17 >
18 > I get debug output that shows it does only what /etc/logrotate.conf
19 > tells it to do. And syslog, etc. are not touched.
20 >
21 > Could it be that there's another facility that's doing that work?
22
23 Installed apps which are cognizant of logrotate install their config for
24 rotation in /etc/logrotate.d/
25
26 The syslog-ng package installs this file by default:
27
28 ~ # cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng
29 #
30 # Syslog-ng logrotate snippet for Gentoo Linux
31 # contributed by Michael Sterrett
32 #
33
34 /var/log/messages {
35 missingok
36 sharedscripts
37 postrotate
38 /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
39 endscript
40 }
41
42 which corresponds to the only log file created by syslog-ng as a default. If
43 you alter the configuration to capture/filter/record different syslog-ng
44 outputs, then you'll have to add your own logrotate configuration, either in /
45 etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng itself, or in additional files.
46
47 Are the two systems identical in terms of the syslog-ng config and *all* the
48 logrotate config files?
49
50 --
51 Regards,
52
53 Mick

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