On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:48 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > My named, maillog and messages logs have never rotated on a daily basis, > before. Are they actually being rotated? Or are they just being checked? My maillog and syslog entries in /etc/logrotate.d don't have any time designators, so they should go by the default in /etc/logrotate.conf. In my case, that says "weekly". Yours should be the same. But the logrotate job runs daily. Logrotate keeps last-rotated dates in /var/lib/logrotate.status. If you have the runaway rotation problem (see my other post in this thread), it's possible that that's corrupted. > > And no, it wasn't...my apologies...I usually do better. I can only note > that my 2 month old was crying as I wrote the second message, and forgot > to trim it down before sending it. Accepted 8^). > > > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:52 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > >> I should also point out that logrotate, although listed in cron.daily, > >> used to only rotate the logs on Sunday mornings. Now it tries to rotate > >> them every day...yet another unexpected behavior. > >> > > > > Most logs are rotated weekly, but some are not. See the individual > > specs in /etc/logrotate.d. > > > > Was quoting your *entire* previous message strictly necessary?
