Hi Paul,
That was it - I did a 'man logrotate' and got tons of info - the files can be
controled based on timing as well as size - very neat.
Thanks for the pointer,
philomena
On Monday 13 November 2000 08:18 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, philomena wrote:
> >I will subscribe to that list, but my question is not really a
> >PMFirewall question - its about controlling the size of the system log
> >files - since I saw a syslog.gz , which I know I didn't create, I am
> >assuming there is some system utility that compressed the
> >/var/log/syslog file when it reached some filesize. The same happened
> >with /var/log/messages - there was a messages.gz, which I didn't create.
> >Is there a system parameter or service that monitors and controls the
> >size of specified log files ? If so, I want to set that max file size to
> >something small, so that my system doesn't go haywire while I am workign
> >on the firewall issue.
>
> Hi Philomena,
>
> Once a week a cronjob runs, executing the /etc/cron.weekly jobs
> In that directory there probably is a job called 'logrotate'. This is what
> creates the tar.gz files.
>
> Paul
