Adrian Golumbovici wrote:

> Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running?

look in the crontab or int /etc/cron.daily ....

> 
> ps aux | grep logrotate
> 
> didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it
> work)?

It's not a deamon, its started by cron, run and then dies.

> I see some logs archived (with .gz ending) in /var/log but don't really
> need them (they just take up space). 

proberbly logrotate, that what it does, switching logfile for processes,
keeping the old ones compressed.

> Anything older than 30 days should be 
> irrelevant.

man logrotate will help you to set that up, by tweaking /etc/logrotate.conf

/Björn


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