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

This brings us to the second step (above), where we created '''/etc/logrotate.d/rotate.logs''' . This script will be run everyday. The comments I added to the rotate.logs file above give a general idea of what it does. You can delete, modify & add to that script, but do it carefully.

This brings us to the second step (above), where we created '''/etc/logrotate.d/rotate.logs''' . This script will be run everyday. The comments I added to the rotate.logs file above give a general idea of what it does. You can delete, modify & add to that script, but do it carefully.

Is that any file in /var/log that had '''log''' at the end of its name will be processed by the commands in the '''rotate.logs''' script. This will back up these files to a new file '''<name>.log.1''' & empty the original file to size 0. Any previous copies of with '''<name>.log.<number>''' will have their numbers bumped up one, until the day when they would have been given an 8, that is the day that they are deleted.

Is that any file in /var/log that had '''log''' at the end of its name will be processed by the commands in the '''rotate.logs''' script. This will back up these files to a new file '''<name>.log.1''' & empty the original file to size 0. Any previous copies of with '''<name>.log.<number>''' will have their numbers bumped up one, until the day when they would have been given an 8, that is the day that they are deleted.