John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > Using Fedora 7, I am trying to see how we can rotate some log files each > day, but keep a month's worth of files. > > Logrotate can rotate the files daily, and I can specify something like: > > daily > start 1 > rotate 30 > > But this does not account for month's of 31 days, or February with 28/29 > days. Likewise if I set 'rotate 31' then this is not going to work on > those months of just 30 days. > > Does anyone have any ideas about this? > > > Thanks, > > John. > You can control how many old log files are kept by changing "rotate 4" to how many weeks of backlogs you want to keep, This is in /etc/logrotate.conf. You can control individual logs by editing the corresponding file in /etc/logrotate.d and adding/changing the rotate line. You can find more information by running "man logrotate". Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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