[Eug-lug] Limit size of log files?

[Matthew Jarvis]

Thanks Mark...

I made some changes to see what compress will do for me, plus trimmed 
down the # of logs from 4 to 2 - I'll see what happens...

Do I have to do anything else to tell it to use this updated conf file, 
or will it see the changes already?

Thanks again...

Matthew S. Jarvis
IT Manager
Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs."
www.bikefriday.com
541/687-0487 x140
mattj at bikefriday.com


Mark Turner wrote:
> Its fairly easy to limit log file size if you use logrotate. In the
> configuration specification for each log you can give it a size
> parameter,  which will rotate the log when it hits that size.
> 
> Example:
> # sample logrotate configuration file
> 
>       /var/log/messages {
>           rotate 5
>           weekly
>           size=100k
>           postrotate
>                                     /sbin/killall -HUP syslogd
>           endscript
>       }
> 
> 
> On 1/31/07, Matthew Jarvis <mattj at bikefriday.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to globally set how big log files can get?
>>
>> i.e. maillog, maillog.1, maillog.2
>>
>> I was hoping that this global setting would also control apache,
>> postgres etc but that's prolly asking too much...
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Matthew S. Jarvis
>> IT Manager
>> Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs."
>> www.bikefriday.com
>> 541/687-0487 x140
>> mattj at bikefriday.com
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