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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 === The effect of running /etc/logrotate.d/rotate.logs everyday ===
-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 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.
 As well as this rotating (copying) & renaming of files, all files will be compressed in gzip format on the next rotation. Which means that you always have the current file & yesterdays file in /var/log in uncompressed format.