Re: Compressing Log File

[Werner Puschitz <wp puschitz com>]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, lonh SENG wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 	I use RH7.2. I want keep my log file (message , mail ...etc ) by compressing 
> them day by day.
> 	For instance, My mail log file is mail. I want to keep it as following:
> 		mail_$date.gz
> 	Can we configure syslog to do this?

man logrotate
logrotate - rotates, compresses, and mails system logs

Werner