Are the logs in /var/log/ automatically rotated?

[Randy Vice]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:

> Don Bedsole wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I was wondering if the logs in the /var/log directory (especially 
>> /var/log/messages) are automatically deleted after a certain period of time 
>> or when the log file gets to a certain size.  Or, is this something that 
>> needs to be set up manually by the user using a cron job or something like 
>> that?  I have just changed my iptables rules to include some logging and 
>> the messages go to /var/log/messages.  I'm not too worried about getting my 
>> hard drive filled up with log messages, but I don't want to save them 
>> forever either. Thank you.
>
> They're rotated on a weekly basis, with IIRC five weeks' messages kept.
>
> See /etc/logrotate.d/syslog

Is there a GUI for managing this?

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