[syslog-ng] log file size limit

Hendrik Visage hvjunk at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 18:35:18 CEST 2011


Better to make use of monthly, weekly, daily, hourly type logs in
syslog-ng, and the to use cront to clean up as needed ;)

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:50 PM, William Tambellini
<William.Tambellini at galaxysemi.com> wrote:
> Dear Syslog-ng team,
>
>  We are currently evaluating syslog-ng in order to satisfy some requests
> from our customers regarding logs from our software.
>
>  One of their requests is to limit log file size using some kind of rotation
> algo : if size > 6Mo then rotate to another file.
>
>  We have found some options in file destination like fifo buffer control but
> nothing about files rotation.
>
>  Is there anything for that kind of feature ?
>
> Regards
>
> WT.
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