On 100112 at 16:09, david wrote: > Is there a good reason NOT to rotate logs hourly.. for example by > moving the logrotate cron to hourly instead of daily? This is a file > created hourly by cron for which I want to keep a history.
Maybe you rather want to include the date in the file name, so it is not overwritten. E.g., for an arbitrary cronjob named foobar: foobar > /var/log/foobar.log.$(date +%w) 2>&1 This will keep the 6 last files. You get the idea. > logrotate looks like a good way to do it. I'm assuming there is no > "hourly" option in logrotate, so I was going to force it to rotate > by specifying a very small file size. If you do the above, logrotate should ignore the file. /steffen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
