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Rsyslog Output Files - Reload on Rotate?
Good morning,
I'm new to everything sysadmin.
I"m trying to set a few server processes to log to rsyslog (for future shipping abilities, etc.), but want to have clean log files on my local machine ...
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In logrotate, where does postrotate log errors?
If there are errors in the postrotate script block, where are they logged in Ubuntu?
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nginx logrotate config
Whats the best way to rotate nginx logfiles? In my opinion, I should create a file "nginx" in /etc/logrotate.d/ and fill it with the following code and do a /etc/init.d/syslog restart after that.
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logrotate does not compress /var/log/messages
Over time I noticed some logs in /var/log such as auth, kern and messages were getting huge. I made logrotate entries for them:
$ cat /etc/logrotate.d/auth.log
/var/log/kern.log {
rotate 5
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syslog rotation
I wrote a small c app that uses the syslog c interface to write messages (from man 3 syslog):
void openlog(const char *ident, int logopt, int facility);
void syslog(int priority, const char *message, ...
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Two scripts in /etc/cron.daily seem to be rotating my logs: logrotate and sysklogd
It seems that my logfiles generated by syslog are getting rotated twice each day. I believe this is due to both /etc/cron.daily/logrotate and /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd doing overlapping work.
Here are ...
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How to use wildcards within logrotate configuration files
I have the following configuration that is not working:
1) Using rsyslog with Centos 5.
2) Inside /etc/logrotate.d I have the file sj-piers-logs.
SJ-PIERS-LOGS:
/syslogrep/sjpiers-logs/0* {
weekly
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