On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > One of those jobs tidies up your log files. > > Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after > > you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files to tidy :-) > > derek > > > > (I think thats the third time I have posted that advice this week) > > Thanks a lot Derek, > If I'm not mistaken, anacron is the scheduler, not the actual cleaner of > log files. I understand that logrotate is the one who does that? > I've looked into /etc/logrotate.d/ and /etc/logrotate.conf but I can't > understand how to configure it. Pls help. > Thanks.
Correct. anacron will schedule jobs to run that were not run by cron. Logrotate is the actual package to compress the log files. Logrotate is installed by default in Mandrake, and a cron job is automatically placed in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate That file points to the logrotate configuration /etc/logrotate.conf, but you should not need to touch it. By default logrotate will compress all your log files and keep four weeks of compressed backups. Whenever you install a new RPM which requires loggging, then a file is dropped into /etc/logrotate.d to add that log file to logrotates job entirely automatically. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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