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syslog not archiving
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:08 pm
by mister_v
Hi,
I have syslog-ng installed,
but it is not rotating the logs.
After a month the log files are getting big...
Re: syslog not archiving
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:18 pm
by chris
Syslog is only used to let the system (and applications) log to files.
If you want to archive them you need
logrotate
This can be installed on gentoo:
or debian/ubuntu
after the install you can tun it immediately by:
But mostly it is run by cron,
you should find the file
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
The config files are:
/etc/logrotate.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/*