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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