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

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Thanks.

Chris

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:05:08AM +1000, Frank Crawford wrote:
> 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
> > SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego
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> > San Diego, CA 92152-5385
> > U.S.A.
> > 
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Dr. Christian Seberino
SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego
Code 2872
49258 Mills Street, Room 158
San Diego, CA 92152-5385
U.S.A.

Phone: (619) 553-9973
Fax:   (619) 553-6521
Email: seberino@spawar.navy.mil
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