Re: [gentoo-user] Rationalizing log files

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 6:20 AM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:58 AM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
wrote:
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> <SNIP>
> > # no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here.
> > /var/log/wtmp {
> >     monthly
> >     create 0664 root utmp
> >     minsize 1M
> >     rotate 1
> > }
> > /var/log/btmp {
> >     missingok
> >     monthly
> >     create 0600 root utmp
> >     rotate 1
> > }
> <SNIP>
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> As you reported 'roughly monthly' failures my guess would be the above
two sections
>

One additional thought: If the above sections are involved and if it's a
bug then you might find it faster changing the above to daily vs monthly.

If you were to try this then do them one at a time and change the rotate
number to 30 or 40 to keep the data for the month. (I think...)

Good luck,
Mark