How long are log files kept?

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Daniel Carrillo wrote:
> El mar, 09-08-2005 a las 10:20 -0700, Dave Martini 1 escribió:
> 
>>RHEL 3 and 4.
>>In the syslog.conf file how long are these log files kept and what
>>is the rotation schedule for instance /var/log/authlog. I don't
>>see any cron jobs for log rotation.
>>I need to keep at least 30 days worth of logs.
>>Thanks much.
>>Dave Maritni
>>LLNL
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> The log rotation policies is managed with the "logrotate" utilitie.
> 
> See: 
> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
> /etc/logrotate.conf
> /etc/logrotate.d/*
> 
> 
> man logrotate for further information
> 
> Regards.
> 

Yeas, you can set for each log or all logs things like how often a new 
log is created (daily, weekly, monthly, after a certain size is reached 
or number of entries, etc), How many sets of logs are created before 
they rotate out (just one log, 5, 10, 100, ...) and how many of each to 
keep and when to kill them off.

I tend to use webmin on my home computer with no outside access to it. 
It has a built in module for managing the logrotate features.