Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:13:47
Message-Id: 5221275.XVC31h41L2@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files by Dale
1 On Sunday 22 February 2015 22:28:07 Dale wrote:
2 > Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 22 February 2015 20:57:43 Dale wrote:
4 > >> I think you need this:
5 > >>
6 > >> app-admin/logrotate
7 > >>
8 > >> Then I think a cron package is needed to run that, set to daily
9 > >> here I think.
10 > >
11 > > It comes with logrotate:
12 > >
13 > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
14 >
15 > The script does but if you don't have a cron package installed,
16 > nothing will run to rotate the logs. Maybe my message wasn't worded
17 > correctly? It's been a long week. ;-)
18
19 Ah, I see what you mean. My misread.
20
21 --
22 Rgds
23 Peter.