Mark Quitoriano wrote: > On 6/2/07, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote: >> >> Mark Quitoriano wrote: >> > how do i prevent the logfiles from getting 2GB of file. what should i >> > set in >> > logrotate? >> >> How often do you rotate the logs today? >> >> Maybe you can do it more often, change "monthly" to >> "weekly" in /etc/logrotate.conf >> >> man logrotate will tell you how to rotate based on >> size. If the log file gets to 2G in one day you might >> need to move the file logrotate from /etc/cron.daily >> to /etc/cron.hourly >> >> Mogens >> >> -- >> Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department >> Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark >> Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 >> Email: mk at crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > weekly, i just changed it do daily. Is there a way to rotate it by size of > file? instead of time? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos man logrotate.8 ... "/var/log/httpd/access.log" /var/log/httpd/error.log { rotate 5 mail www at my.org size=100k sharedscripts postrotate /sbin/killall -HUP httpd endscript } ... -- Bob Marcan, Consultant mailto:bob.marcan at snt.si S&T Slovenija d.d. tel: +386 (1) 5895-300 Leskoskova cesta 6 fax: +386 (1) 5895-202 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia url: http://www.snt.si