[TriLUG] Debian logfile rotation question

[Michael Mueller]

On Thursday 13 June 2002 23:18, James LewisMoss reputedly wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:23:56 -0400, Michael Mueller
> >>>>> <mmueller at ss7box.com> said:
>
>  Michael> See script below.
>
> Looks like even the current version of sysklogd in unstable still uses
> this method to rotate logs, but in general on debian things use
> logrotate not this script.  Not sure why sysklogd hasn't switched to
> using logrotate.  (In fact there's a bug report 44523
> (http://bugs.debian.org/44523) on this.)
>
> Jim

Thanks.  At least I know which direction things are headed in now.  That 
restart action at the end of the sysklogd script is a good thing.  I hope 
they keep it in the transition to logrotate.

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Mike Mueller
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