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Re: Compressing Log File



On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:46:53PM -0500, Werner Puschitz wrote:
> man logrotate
> logrotate - rotates, compresses, and mails system logs

Indeed... in order to have daily compression, you should have something like
this:

~$ cat /etc/logrotate.conf
# Rotate on a daily basis...
daily
# Save backups for 21 days, then remove each backup that is older than 21
# days...
rotate 21 
# Create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
# Compress your backup-logfiles...
compress
# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
# no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}
~$ 

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