[syslog-ng] syslog-ng and logrotate

[Rakesh Rajasekharan]

Yup ... got it.. so for now , i need to rely on the logrotate outside of
syslog-ng....

Thanks,
Rakesh.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Jakub Jankowski <shasta at toxcorp.com> wrote:

> On 2013-05-10, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>
> > Rakesh Rajasekharan <rakesh.rajasekharan at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> 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 ?
> >
> > No, that is not possible yet. There are plans to add support for it,
> > there was even a patch a year or so ago, but it needs to be cleaned up
> > and updated before proposing it for merging into 3.5. And as such, if
> > and when this feature appears, it won't be in the 3.3 or 3.4 branches.
>
> And until this is implemented, my suggestion is to use logrotate as you'd
> use with classic BSD syslogd. Don't forget to send SIGHUP to syslog-ng in
> postrotate hooks.
>
>
> HTH,
>
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