[syslog-ng]logrotate question (not working with syslog-ng)...

[Frank Crawford]

Chris,
	Check that /etc/logrotate.conf has the line "include /etc/logrotate.d",
which forces the include all files in the directory '/etc/logrotate.d'. 
That is the standard configuration for Red Hat for sometime now.  I
expect it to be so for other Linux distro's that implement the logrotate
package.

	As to how it knows, it just runs every file in the logrotate.d
directory (or more correctly includes them in the conf and then runs
that).  The match is made on the log filenames, and if they match then
the block below is executed.  The name of the config file you added
doesn't matter to logrotate but it makes it a lot easier for humans if
it does relate to the package or some other obvious standard.

Frank

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 10:52, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> Frank
> 
> Can I ask you 1 last question? :)
> 
> I made a /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng and erased
> /etc/logrotate.d/syslog.
> 
> The only difference is the new guy works off
> /var/run/syslog-ng.pid rather than /var/run/syslog.pid.
> 
> Will logrotate run this file when it rotates syslog-ng files???
> 
> How does logrotate know to run this file?? I assume it
> expects a file whose name is the name of the daemon???
> 
> (If I called it /etc/logrotate.d/charlie 
> it prolly would not have worked right?)
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:45:16PM +1000, Frank Crawford wrote:
> > Chris,
> > 	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.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 16:40, seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> > > Frank
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > ....
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> Dr. Christian Seberino
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> U.S.A.
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