On 2003-04-10 16:45:16 +1000, Frank Crawford wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 16:40, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
Thanks. From your info it sounds like it would make more sense to just replace /etc/logrotate.d/syslog with a modified version *or* /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng if that would work.
The latter, I think. /etc/logrotate.d/syslog belongs to the sysklogd package and syslog-ng should be a replacement for sysklogd.
Yes, as long as there was only one file that referred to the log files. Otherwise both would try to rotate them and confuse most people later.
Right. However IMHO only one of the packages should be installed at any time (although I realize that some would like to use klogd with syslog-ng, but that's a different matter), so the "double rotation" shouldn't be a problem in a sane installation. Relying on the configuration file of an alternative package to provide log rotation seems much more problematic and confusing to me. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Latein ist das humanoide Äquivalent |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | zu Fortran. | | | hjp@hjp.at | __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Alexander Bartolich in at.linux