Are the logs in /var/log/ automatically rotated?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 27 February 2006 15:24, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Randy Vice wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >> Don Bedsole wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I was wondering if the logs in the /var/log directory (especially
> >>> /var/log/messages) are automatically deleted after a certain period
> >>> of time or when the log file gets to a certain size.  Or, is this
> >>> something that needs to be set up manually by the user using a cron
> >>> job or something like that?  I have just changed my iptables rules to
> >>> include some logging and the messages go to /var/log/messages.  I'm
> >>> not too worried about getting my hard drive filled up with log
> >>> messages, but I don't want to save them forever either. Thank you.
> >>
> >> They're rotated on a weekly basis, with IIRC five weeks' messages kept.
> >>
> >> See /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
> >
> > Is there a GUI for managing this?
>
> I think your favourite GUI editor is the best you'll get.
>
Maybe Webmin?

Anne
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