[plug] Rotating logs on a Workstation...

[Trevor Phillips]

I'm hoping there's a simple, obvious answer to this. My home PC, running 
Debian 3.0 (Woody), is NOT on all the time, and it seems, does not 
always rotate log files as often as it should. As a result, I end up 
with a rather large /var/, and no free disk space.

As an example, /var/log/messages was last rotated in March. The current 
messages file is 40Mb. (No, not huge, but I've had this config since 
back in the days when 2Gig was PLENTY for a root fs...)

I've tried manually running logrotate. I've tried editing logrotate so 
it rotates by default daily instead of weekly. Still no rotation going on.

What am I missing? How can this be avoided?

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. Trevor Phillips             -           http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ .
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