Why aren't syslog, auth.log, etc. rotated by logrotate?
- From: Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:24:21 -0500
Does anyone know why syslog, auth.log, and other similar system log files
are each rotated by their own separate cron job rather by logrotate? Is
there any reason not to have logrotate handle all of those log files?
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