Hi, The re-occurring question... How com that logrotate isn't working on my logs ?? I have a file in /etc/logrotate.d like this: /var/log/snmp/*.log { weekly notifempty compress sharedscripts missingok prerotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true /etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart endscript postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true /etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart touch /var/log/snmp/network.log /var/log/snmp/snmptrapd.log /var/log/snmp/ups.log /var/log/snmp/vpn.log /var/log/snmp/witraz.log endscript } I did the kill -HUP both as pre- and post-rotate because there seems to a problem, I've even tried to restart the daemon - nothing helps... Checking my /var/log/snmp dir gives me: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2935158 Feb 18 20:12 network.log -rw------- 1 root root 1106 Nov 18 23:44 network.log.1.gz -rw------- 1 root root 7981 Aug 24 21:19 network.log.2.gz -rw------- 1 root root 1664 Jul 31 2004 network.log.3.gz -rw------- 1 root root 7012 Jul 23 2004 network.log.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70908362 Feb 18 20:14 snmptrapd.log -rw------- 1 root root 28929 Nov 19 04:00 snmptrapd.log.1.gz -rw------- 1 root root 4591 Aug 25 02:58 snmptrapd.log.2.gz -rw------- 1 root root 3366 Aug 1 2004 snmptrapd.log.3.gz -rw------- 1 root root 4729 Jul 25 2004 snmptrapd.log.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 767 Feb 3 09:43 ups.log -rw------- 1 root root 467 Aug 24 14:36 ups.log.1.gz -rw------- 1 root root 220 Jul 15 2004 ups.log.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36442477 Feb 18 20:10 vpn.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1045305 Dec 30 10:35 vpn.log.1.gz -rw------- 1 root root 36723 Nov 21 03:56 vpn.log.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 Nov 4 09:40 vpn-trap.log.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1533667 Feb 17 17:17 witraz.log -rw------- 1 root root 553 Nov 19 17:49 witraz.log.1.gz -rw------- 1 root root 187 Aug 24 15:56 witraz.log.2.gz -rw------- 1 root root 620 Jul 31 2004 witraz.log.3.gz -rw------- 1 root root 703 Jul 24 2004 witraz.log.4.gz I've rotated some of the logfiles manually - but check e.g. network.log - it's been 3 months since last rotate ?? I'm running on a RHEL 3.0 Any idea why this logrotate isn't working ?? /Brian