logrotate

[Philippe de Rochambeau]

Shouldn't my local logrocate.conf file override /etc/logrotate.conf?

Let us say that the logrotate executable's configuration does not get 
overriden by the local conf file which I supply to it, shouldn't my 
logs be rotated anyway since they were created on 2001-01-01?



On 9 Jun 2005, at 13:26, replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net 
wrote:

> if you've set the logrotate interval to "daily" ((generally) top line
> of /etc/logrotate.conf), then it only rotate daily (unless you use
> the -f option as you found). if you try to rotate more frequently
> than the logrotate interval you'll get no action (or the message with
> the -v).
>
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
>> Date: Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:25:19 PM +0200
>> From: Philippe de Rochambeau <pderochambeau at iht.com>
>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: logrotate
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> in order to try to understand how logrotate works, I have created
>> dummy log files as follows
>>
>> touch -t 200101011200 1.log
>> touch -t 200101011200 2.log
>> touch -t 200101011200 3.log
>> ...
>>
>> if I do a logrotate on those files with the -v option, logrotate
>> tells me that those files don't need rotating (I have made the
>> rotation daily with no size restriction, in my conf file).
>>
>> adding data to those files (yes > 1.log) makes no difference.
>>
>> The rotation only works if I use the -f option.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the criteria that make logrotate rotate a
>> file are?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Philippe
>>
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