Difference between revisions of "Limit the size of .log files & the journal"

Limit the size of .log files & the journal (view source)

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 === My settings in logrotate.conf don't effect all of the .log files? ===
-Script files that are called via the logrotate.conf file take precedence over the global settings in logrotate.conf . I use a script I named '''rotate.logs''' that is set to work on all *.log files, & it does. The few that don't get rotated don't have a .log file extension, so therefore need to each have a duplicate block of script added below my the *.log script that specifies each of their particular names.
+Script files that are called via the logrotate.conf file take precedence over the global settings in logrotate.conf . That means that if call a script from logrotate.conf that is located in the /etc/logrotate.d directory, then that script is more powerful than any of the global setting in logrotate.conf .
+I use a script '''/etc.logrotate.d/rotate.logs''' that is set to work on all *.log files, & it does. The few that don't get rotated don't have a .log file extension. Therefore, they each need to have there own copy of the script block that is used to on all the *.log files, with the only difference being that at the top of the script block it specifies each of their particular names instead of '''/var/log/*.log {''' .
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