[syslog-ng] clearing log files

[Worsham, Michael]

This is what I am using for my /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng script. Feel free to alter as needed.

/var/log/syslog/apache/*/*.log
/var/log/syslog/general/*/*.log
/var/log/syslog/weblogic/*/*.log
{
    missingok
    create 644 root root
    notifempty
    copytruncate
    compress
    rotate 1
}

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From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Gergely Nagy [algernon at madhouse-project.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:58 PM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] clearing log files

> Actually this wont solve it, syslog-ng wont overwrite logs, it will only
> append to them.

You're correct - overwrite_if_older() is also needed (the admin docs
even list simple log rotation as an example when talking about this
option).
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