2009/9/23 Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I just discovered that /var/log/messages is NOT part of the daily logrotate
> on my FC10 netbook. My drive was full with a 4Gb messages file. Deleted it
> and now the system is working right again.
>
> So I want to add it to the daily rotate. Is there an easy way to set this
> up?
>
> More importantly why is it NOT part of the daily rotate?
It has been part of the (weekly) log rotation for as long as I remember.
Is your /var/log/secure log rotated correctly?
- You should have /etc/cron.daily/logrotate, which runs logrotate daily.
- You should have /etc/logrotate.conf which sets some defaults, notably:
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4
- You should then have something like the following script:
[sam@samlap ~]$ cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler
/var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
But as I said before, I believe the messages log is on weekly
rotation, not daily and depends on cron.daily running...
--
Sam
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