[Eug-lug] Limit size of log files?

[Ben Barrett]

I think logrotate is spawned from cron; if so it should re-read the config
when it runs next.
Check your crontab --in general, if you edit a conf for a service that is in
/etc/init.d/... then
you need to restart that service.

ben


On 1/31/07, Matthew Jarvis <mattj at bikefriday.com> wrote:
>
> 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=3D100k
> >           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
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> >> 541/687-0487 x140
> >> mattj at bikefriday.com
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