[TriLUG] Debian logfile rotation question

[Michael Mueller]

Does anybody know why Debian rotates log files with "savelog" and "logrotate" 
while RH and Mandrake use only  "logrotate"?

I see syslogd-listfiles and savelog at heart of /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd.  
Are these methods unique to Debian?  I use RH6.1 and Mandrake 8.1 and they do 
not have syslogd-listfiles or savelog commands.

On my RH6.1 systems (slated for migration to Debian)  the logrotate facility 
is used to in the logrotate script in /etc/cron.daily.  I had to add 
/etc/rc.d.init.d/syslog restart to get new files handles for the loggers.  
The Mandrake 8.1 system is same.  I notice that sysklogd restarts the 
syslogger and the kernel logger.  It's appears that I have solved a 
problem the Debians solved in 1998.

Is savelog a better logrotate with compressing at cycle 1 
instead of 0?  

In sysklogd what are the permission changes for in files 
listed with "syslogd-listfiles --auth"?
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Mike Mueller
www.ss7box.com