Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:09:27 +0200 From: "Riaan Kruger" <riaank@gmail.com> To: "John Almberg" <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rotatelogs is rotating too quickly... Message-ID: <85c4b1850808200709y51e4f8f0g7961fecefdb126ed@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D6F2929A-B2C4-4149-B5A7-5C03FB546E3B@identry.com> References: <482E252F-3819-46DD-A272-A174C1B41333@identry.com> <85c4b1850808200649l2cf42462nfa7d64fe09fa1253@mail.gmail.com> <D6F2929A-B2C4-4149-B5A7-5C03FB546E3B@identry.com>
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:03 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > That does not look like 5 Meg but 5 Minutes. >> >> > I don't think so... From the man pages: > > CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 5M" common > > This configuration will rotate the logfile whenever it reaches a > size > of 5 megabytes. > > ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/errorlog.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S > 5M" > > This configuration will rotate the error logfile whenever it reaches > a > size of 5 megabytes, and the suffix to the logfile name will be > created > of the form errorlog.YYYY-mm-dd-HH_MM_SS. > > Oops sorry. Didn't look close. Initial "inspection" of log file times looked like 5 mins. Riaan.
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