Re: [webmin-l] Logrotate - Newsyslog

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Grant Peel wrote:
> Here is a sample of newsyslog.conf ... it is read by the newsyslog 
> utility which is triggered each 1 minute via cron. fields 5 and 6 are 
> the rules, and determine if the log is rotated. 'syslog' is the c 
> utility that actually writes the logfile, rules for that are in 
> /etc/syslog.conf.
> 
> # logfilename          [owner:group]    mode count size when  flags 
> [/pid_file] [sig_num]
> /var/log/cron                           600  14    *    $D00  Z
> /var/log/amd.log                        644  7     100  *     Z
> /var/log/auth.log                       600  14    *    $D00  Z
> /var/log/kerberos.log                   600  7     100  *     Z
> /var/log/lpd-errs                       644  7     100  *     Z
> /var/log/maillog                        640  14    *    $D00  Z
> /var/log/sendmail.st                    640  10    *    168   B
> /var/log/messages                       644  14    *    $D00  Z
> /var/log/all.log                        600  14    *    $D00  Z
> /var/log/slip.log       root:network    640  3     100  *     Z
> 
> I don't know what logrotate looks like, never used it!

It definitely doesn't look like that!  ;-)