Re: [newbie] logrotate question

2004-10-09 Thread Chris
On Saturday 09 October 2004 01:29 pm, mike wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and > > mail it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old > > log isn't being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter > > that send

Re: [newbie] logrotate question

2004-10-09 Thread mike
Chris wrote: > I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and mail > it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old log isn't > being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter that sends me the > output of rkhunter after its run as a cron job

[newbie] logrotate question

2004-10-09 Thread Chris
I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and mail it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old log isn't being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter that sends me the output of rkhunter after its run as a cron job and before its compres

Re: [newbie] logrotate tool for stout

2004-02-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:04:49 +0100 Søren Neigaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an application where I pipe its stout into a file, but the file > grows huge over time. So I was thinking if there is a tool I can pipe > my Does the application output grow over a period of time? Are you runnin

[newbie] logrotate tool for stout

2004-02-10 Thread Søren Neigaard
Im not 100% sure this is the right place for this question, but I guess if I where not a newbie, I would know if souch a tool exists or not, so therefore the question here ;) I have an application where I pipe its stout into a file, but the file grows huge over time. So I was thinking if there is

Re: [newbie] logrotate

2003-10-07 Thread mike
Burrows, Scott wrote: Mike, Doing the manual thing that is being proposed will certainly work but why do it that way when you can use WebMin and get a nice easy interface to work with and be concerned about hosing up a text file or use the the wrong syntax. WEBMIN it baby! I used Webmin to alter m

Re: [newbie] logrotate

2003-10-04 Thread mike
Sharrea Day wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:27, mike wrote: Thanks, Fajar I edited the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog to daily instead of weekly. Under /etc/cron.daily I have logrotate* so I should be good to go. Mike, JFYI: the command to force log rotation of /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages wou

Re: [newbie] logrotate

2003-10-04 Thread Sharrea Day
On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:27, mike wrote: > Thanks, Fajar > I edited the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog to daily instead of weekly. > Under /etc/cron.daily I have logrotate* so I should be good to > go. Mike, JFYI: the command to force log rotation of /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages would be: # lo

Re: [newbie] logrotate

2003-10-02 Thread mike
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 October 2003 10:31 am, mike wrote: I tried "logrotate" and with the "-f" option, but it displays version and brief help message. I dont believe I understand the man page to well, any pointers? I also do not have X ins

Re: [newbie] logrotate

2003-10-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 October 2003 10:31 am, mike wrote: > I tried "logrotate" and with the "-f" option, but it > displays version and brief help message. I dont believe > I understand the man page to well, any pointers? > I also do not have X installed on it.

[newbie] logrotate

2003-10-02 Thread mike
Hello, I did a (not a very nice thing) to my firewall box and as a result have created some rather huge log files in /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog I would like to manually clean them up if I can I tried "logrotate" and with the "-f" option, but it displays version and brief help message.

[newbie] logrotate error ??

2002-10-25 Thread Kenn Murrah
when running logrotate logrotate.conf i'm getting an error: error: logrotate.conf:1 unexpected text the entire contents of my logrotate.conf file is: errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/log/squid/access.log { rotate 8 daily } can anyone tell me what i've done w

[newbie] logrotate doesn't

2002-10-04 Thread Poogle
My log files fill up and I cannot get logrotate to empty them, I have issued logrotate -f /var/log/messages (as root) but get a string of errors like this error: /var/log/messages:20224 unknown option 'Oct' -- ignoring line error: /var/log/messages:20224 unexpected text error: /var/log/messages:

Re: [newbie] Logrotate

2001-04-28 Thread Todd Lyons
> "Delagarza, Gilbert" wrote: > > What in the world is logrotate and why is it taking up so much memory > and making my drive just run and run and run. I had this issue earlier > this week where the server was just crawling. I noticed that logrotate > was active twice taking up huge amounts of me

Re: [newbie] Logrotate

2001-04-27 Thread Paul
> What in the world is logrotate and why is it taking up so much memory and > making my drive just run and run and run. I had this issue earlier this week > where the server was just crawling. I noticed that logrotate was active > twice taking up huge amounts of memory. I ended up rebooting the se

[newbie] Logrotate

2001-04-27 Thread Delagarza, Gilbert
What in the world is logrotate and why is it taking up so much memory and making my drive just run and run and run. I had this issue earlier this week where the server was just crawling. I noticed that logrotate was active twice taking up huge amounts of memory. I ended up rebooting the serv

Re: [newbie] logrotate process does not stop

2001-01-19 Thread Renato Tognaccini
Paul wrote: > Hi, I have the following problem on my Mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.15: > the process logrotate that reorganizes the system messages directory > /var/log > and which is daily launched by cron does not stop anymore. So each day a > logrotate > starts , after 3 days on my computer 3 logroa

RE: [newbie] logrotate process does not stop

2001-01-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
  -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Renato TognacciniSent: Friday, January 12, 2001 3:15 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] logrotate process does not stopHi, I have the following problem on my Mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.15: the

Re: [newbie] logrotate process does not stop

2001-01-12 Thread Paul
> Hi, I have the following problem on my Mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.15: > the process logrotate that reorganizes the system messages directory > /var/log > and which is daily launched by cron does not stop anymore. So each day a > logrotate > starts , after 3 days on my computer 3 logroate process ar

[newbie] logrotate process does not stop

2001-01-12 Thread Renato Tognaccini
Hi, I have the following problem on my Mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.15: the process logrotate that reorganizes the system messages directory /var/log and which is daily launched by cron does not stop anymore. So each day a logrotate starts , after 3 days on my computer 3 logroate process are running a

[newbie] logrotate

2001-01-08 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi all! I have a server that is running 7.1, and as of the past week or two I have been having problems with logrotate. The crazy thing just keeps going! I will come into work and the hard drive will be chugging away, the only way I can get it to stop is by killing logrotate. Over the weekend,