Well, found the answer: The file /etc/logrotate.d/.conf contains the line: include /etc/logrotate.d
This was a bit inconspicous, coming as it did after a comment about RPM's. This makes logrotate read all the configuration files in /etc/logrotate.d. <RANT> They have made a simple job as complicated as possible: cron starts and runs in the background, it reads /etc/crontab (hard coded in cron) which calls /usr/sbin/cronloop with Daily Weekly etc options, those options being directories with scripts in them, and each script in the directory is run, but each script is really just a symbolic link to a script in ../lib, and each script in lib runs another program which has its own configuration file somewhere else, which may reference other configuration files, etc & etc. In the case of logrotate, the cofiguration file used, /etc/logrotate.d/.conf, has an include directive, not prominently displayed, for all the other configuration files in the same directory as .conf. It is surprising that things seem to just "break" in linux?</RANT> Joel On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:48:45AM -0600, Collins wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:20:38 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I am using Caldera 2.4. > > > > I am messing with my syslogs for the first time in some many months. > > > > My logs are being properly rotated and all, but I can't figure out > > which program is doing it. > > > > There is a directory > > /etc/logrotate.d which contains: > > .conf ftpd samba syslog tr > > > > which contain the configuration for rotating the various types of > > logs. > > > > Problem is, I can't figure out which script/program is accessing > > these configuration files. > > > > Any insight appreciated, > > Most likely a cron file. > > -- > Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? > gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
