[plug] How to retain logrotate backups forever

[Byron Hammond]

Can you bump up the rotate number to something massive so it effectively
isn't deleted for a very very long time?

On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 09:22, Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody know how to cause logrotate to retain the rotated logs
> forever? The man page for `rotate` says this:
>
>
>  > rotate count
>  >     Log files are rotated count times before being removed or mailed
> to the address specified in a mail directive. If count is 0, old
> versions are removed rather than rotated.
>
>
> It doesn't say what happens if this option is omitted entirely. I asked
> ChatGPT and it lied to me with a catastrophic answer which would delete
> everything. I can't find an answer on the usual sites like
> Stackoverflow. Hoping for a response an actual human who has done this
> before.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
>
> Chris.
>
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