Re: installation date and time

spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Cinder6 <cinder6@xxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>
>>
>>
>>spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>>Part of the standard cron settings, usually daily or weekly, although the
>>>script might check on the size of a log and only rotate it when it hits a
>>>certain size...
>>>
>>>Never really looked into it.
>>
>>Interesting, my cron folders have no such event there. Must be why
>>I've never seen it!
>>
>
> Not too sure of that...
> check /var/log
>
> If you have things like
> messages-20050615.gz
> in there, you have log rotation.
>
Even if you don't ...

On Red Hat systems, there is a file in /etc/cron.daily that says:

$ cat logrotate
#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0

I have never sen the ALERT message. But /etc/logrotate.conf tells it what to
do. Mine says:

$ cat logrotate
#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0
trillian:jdbeyer[/etc/cron.daily]$ cd ..
trillian:jdbeyer[/etc]$ c

trillian:jdbeyer[/etc]$ cat logrotate.conf
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}



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