Hi,
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net wrote:
I fixed that problem for yum by editing /etc/logrotate.d/yum and changing "size 30k" to "size 10k". For CentOS, a 10 kilobyte log file is enough to hold several months of yum activity, but small enough that the file will be rotated before a year passes.
As we wanted to make sure we solved the problem, and for all the logs, we inserted a new cron that ran logrotate with the -f parameter on a specific day of the year:
0 0 11 5 * /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
I'm not sure we used midnight as the time, and the day was different for every machine. Thinking about it now, maybe it should be done twice a year.
0 0 11 5,11 * /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
Anyway, you get the general idea.
Filipe