[Nagios-users] Log rotation with Logrotate

2007-10-31 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, Packaging Nagios for Debian means doing things in a way that users might expect them to be done to avoid confusion. One of these expected things is that logs are rotated using logrotate, which allows people to specify, for example, how many log generations are to be held. Unfortunately, to

Re: [Nagios-users] Log rotation with Logrotate

2007-10-31 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Marc Haber wrote: Is it possible to tell nagios not to rotate the logs? How will nagios react when logrotate moves the log file away? log_rotation_method=n According to http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/configmain.html#log_rotation_method n (none) is the default

Re: [Nagios-users] Log rotation with Logrotate

2007-10-31 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Marc Haber wrote: Hi, Packaging Nagios for Debian means doing things in a way that users might expect them to be done to avoid confusion. Nagios users' confusion, or Debian users' confusion? The Nagios users will ofcourse expect Nagios to rotate its own logs, while Debian folks with no clue