On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:48 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
My named, maillog and messages logs have never rotated on a daily basis, before.
Are they actually being rotated? Or are they just being checked? My maillog and syslog entries in /etc/logrotate.d don't have any time designators, so they should go by the default in /etc/logrotate.conf. In my case, that says "weekly". Yours should be the same. But the logrotate job runs daily.
Logrotate keeps last-rotated dates in /var/lib/logrotate.status. If you have the runaway rotation problem (see my other post in this thread), it's possible that that's corrupted.
And no, it wasn't...my apologies...I usually do better. I can only note that my 2 month old was crying as I wrote the second message, and forgot to trim it down before sending it.
Accepted 8^).
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:52 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
I should also point out that logrotate, although listed in cron.daily, used to only rotate the logs on Sunday mornings. Now it tries to rotate them every day...yet another unexpected behavior.
Most logs are rotated weekly, but some are not. See the individual specs in /etc/logrotate.d.
Was quoting your *entire* previous message strictly necessary?