[nmglug] saving disk space

[BrianO'Keefe]

I don't claim any level of courage but I try to make up for it by vast
amounts of ignorance and determination! I love trying all these things
out and the fact that I have any of this working with a Mac and mol and
Linux as well as Fink is a blast, even though I break stuff all the
time! so I'm not sure what the courageous implies...
 
mol was installed via Ubuntu's Synaptic, which would make it a .deb
package I think.
The contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info/logrotate.conffiles:
/etc/logrotate.conf
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate

and in /etc/logrotate.conf:
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}

/var/log/btmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be configured here


Sam Noble wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 10:14 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>   
>> the giant mol.1.log file is
>> still there...logrotate blew right by it 
>>     
>
> Dear Mr. Courageous,
> I don't know as much about logrotate as I wish I did, but I think you
> need to have a stanza specifically addressing your mol logs
> in /etc/logrotate.conf or (the same stanza as discreet file)
> in /etc/logrotate.d/ directory. If you did not install mol from a .deb
> package that may have to be done by hand. Unfortunately I don't know the
> syntax but copying one that works and changing the obvious (:%
> s/acpid/mol/g) is probably a good start.
>
> sam
>
>
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