syslog and logrotate

redhat at buglecreek.com redhat at buglecreek.com
Thu Jul 7 18:13:38 UTC 2005


Just want another opinion on how log rotation works in conjunction with
syslog.  If you have a entry in syslog.conf something like this:
kern.*     /home/user/logs/user.log 
This should send kernel messages to the above file.  Now, unless I set
up logrotate to rotate the log file it will continue to grow?  Is there
any other mechanism that would rotate a log file just because it is in
syslog.conf?  The reason I ask is that we have a local application that
writes log files that are being rotated and I can not figure out how
(not in logrotate).  I suspect a user is running a command occasionally
associated with the application to manually rotate the log.  Just wanted
to see if I was missing anything.  Also, there are no cronjobs.

Thanks 




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