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What package is responsible for rotating kern.log, debug, syslog?
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| Andreas Metzler 2004-02-23, 4:34 am |
| On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:54:36AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I discovered that on my system these weren't rotated (!) by default.
> Should the kernel package be doing this? Logrotate? Syslog?....
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/etc/cron.*/sysklogd
They should show up in the output of /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles (with
or without --weekly)
cu andreas
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| Willi Mann 2004-02-23, 4:34 am |
| Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I discovered that on my system these weren't rotated (!) by default.
> Should the kernel package be doing this? Logrotate? Syslog?....
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Assuming you use sysklogd:
sysklogd
What's the output of
syslogd-listfiles --weekly
on your system?
Willi
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| Willi Mann V. 2004-02-23, 4:34 am |
| Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I discovered that on my system these weren't rotated (!) by default.
> Should the kernel package be doing this? Logrotate? Syslog?....
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If you use sysklogd: sysklogd
what's the output of
syslogd-listfiles --weekly
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Willi
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| Pierre Machard 2004-02-23, 6:34 am |
| Hi,
I had the same problem a few month ago. My System was not powered 24
hours a day.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:54:36AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I discovered that on my system these weren't rotated (!) by default.
> Should the kernel package be doing this? Logrotate? Syslog?....
If your system is not powered 24 hr a day then
apt-get install anacron
Cheers,
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| Guillem Jover 2004-02-24, 2:34 am |
| On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:45:17AM +0000, Stephen Quinney wrote:
> The reason this happened, for me, was because I replaced sysklogd with
> inetutils-syslogd. The sysklogd package has cron.weekly and cron.daily
> scripts which do all the log rotation whereas the inetutils-syslogd
> package has none at all.
New inetutils-syslogd has logrotate files.
regards,
guillem
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