[syslog-ng] syslog-ng and logrotate

Rakesh Rajasekharan rakesh.rajasekharan at gmail.com
Fri May 10 12:19:26 CEST 2013


yes something similar .. but instead of the day, month can we do it based
on the size. say once it crosses 1 GB , archive it and have a new log file
created. Can we do this from syslog-ng ?


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Stuart Green
<stuart.green at doccentrics.com>wrote:

>  If you use something like:
>
> destination hosts {
>             file("/var/log/syslog-ng/$HOST/$YEAR.$MONTH.$DAY/$FACILITY"
>
> It would rotate the client files daily by creating a new folder within the
> year,month, but you'd need to clear up the files yourself if you're not
> intending on keeping them, is that what you are after?
>
> [ Stu ]
>
>
> On 10/05/2013 10:27, Rakesh Rajasekharan wrote:
>
> I am using the syslog-ng 3.3.7 version. My question is , can we manage log
> rotation within the syslog-ng conf file ?
> Please advice
>
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