log size handling

Zbigniew Szalbot z.szalbot at lcwords.com
Fri Jul 18 10:46:40 UTC 2008


Hello,

Matthew Seaman:
>> Do I have to rotate them myself via a script in crontab?
> 
> There are several ways to do this.  Here's three in addition to the
> script that someone else just posted:
> 
>  * Use the 'G' option to newsyslog.  'G' says that the filename
>    field of newsyslog.conf actually contains a shell globbing pattern
>    (wildcard) and files matching that should be rotated and compressed.

So would something like this work?

/var/log/site-*.log         644  12    *    $M1D0 GZC /var/run/httpd.pid

Many thanks in advance!

-- 
Zbigniew Szalbot
www.LCWords.com


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