[syslog-ng] Logrotate Questions And Solicitation For Ideas...

[Vadim Pushkin]

Hi Valdis!

The method you recommend would completely wipe out my logs, I wish to rotate 
them and keep at least N days worth.

.vp

PS Does anyone know if I must restart syslog-ng after or before a logrotate?

>From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu

>On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:34:25 -0000, Vadim Pushkin said:
>
> > The problem that I am having is rotating under syslog-ng, *NOT* MySql.  
>Can
> > anyone please provide me with a good method for rotating logs, where my 
>logs
> > are kept under various subdirs, depending on source address?
>
>What I do is something along the lines of:
>
>1) destination foo { file("/var/logs/whatever/messages-$MONTH$DAY"); };
>
>so syslog-ng creates a seperate output file for each day.
>
>2) A cronjob that then does 'find /var/logs/whatever -mtime +30 -exec rm 
>{}\;'
>is all that's needed to clean up.  Add salt, pepper, and documentation to 
>taste.