Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
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...
OOPS. My bad.
I see now that messages IS being rotated. It was just so big due to an
app that was dumping into it that it grew to 4Gb in a single day and
filled up my /var partition.
BAD app. BAD app. Go in the corner until you can behave.
:)
I turned debug off on it while I work with the developers....
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