syslog-ng does.  

bunyip ~ # ls /etc/logrotate.d
apache2  hibernate-script  mysql  scrollkeeper  syslog-ng

bunyip ~ # qpkg -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng
app-admin/syslog-ng *
bunyip ~ #

so you just need to check the file is present, install logrotate and sit
back and watch it happen.

BillK


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 07:58 +0200, Heinz Sporn wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar:
> > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked....
> > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can
> > reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng
> > config that was emerged by gentoo instalation.
> 
> I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script
> in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a
> similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks, Allan
> > 
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