Comments on: Rotating Linux Log Files – Part 1: syslog

By: Anon123

Anon123 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:47:15 +0000

Also note that syslogd-listfiles will include all log files over the “large” size, so files that otherwise would be rotated weekly will be rotated more often. Eg. I was trying to determine why daemon.log always rotated nightly (coincidentally it wasn’t included in the syslogd-listfiles output when I ran it manually, but by the time cron got around to running in the morning, it was always over 1MB, so got rotated).

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:57:12 +0000

Fantastic article, thanks! I’ve just found a bug… I mean feature in the syslogd-listfiles approach. If you try to exclude news.* events from /var/log/syslog e.g.

*.*;auth,authpriv.none,cron,news.* -/var/log/syslog

Then syslogd-listfiles doesn’t list /var/log/syslog anymore and thus it doesn’t get rotated anymore!!

By: Logrotate in Linux « gnufreakz’s Weblog

Logrotate in Linux « gnufreakz’s Weblog — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:22:50 +0000

[...] other log files not handled by syslog itself (details on rotating system log files can be found in part 1 of the article). It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may [...]

By: miniGeek.org » Postfix, Debian and logrotating

miniGeek.org » Postfix, Debian and logrotating — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:47:04 +0000

[...] found a really informative article on Marius’ site called Rotating Linux Log Files. Debian handles any entries that are found in /etc/syslog.conf are differently to standard [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:44:06 +0000

Many thanks for posting this trace – it saved me a lot of time.

By: ujjwal

ujjwal — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:43:51 +0000

hello
ther are a no of log files generated by the system itself and applications log too in linux. and they are rotated dialy , hourly ,weekly and so on. but i want to create a program that rotates all log files by the same program and other different utilities to stop log rotation.
please give me the suggestions and the help such that i can be able to do it.
i want to use the bash scripting.

By: Rolf BystrÃ¶m

Rolf BystrÃ¶m — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:15:30 +0000

Hi
There is a number of files in /var/log and its sub directories that
are indeed rotated and I wonder how. These files include:
dmesg, evms-engine.log, faillog,lastlog,udev,Xorg.*.log.
I cannot find them either in /etc/logrotate.conf + includes or
among those found if you run syslogd-listfiles.
My problem is that I would like to let logrotate run all my log
rotations and must be able to stop all the other methods.
I run Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake) and would be very
grateful for a tip.