SOURCES: logrotate.conf - do log rotation daily and keep 2 weeks.

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue Dec 25 15:17:05 CET 2007


25-12-07, Pawel Golaszewski <blues at pld-linux.org> napisał(a):
> I won't fight for that setting but lets talt about them...
> > > This was PLD default for a long time,
> ...we should consider changing it :)

+1

> > > > 2 months would be great, 1 month is +- ok but 2 weeks it too short.
> > > And daily is too frequent for ordinary (i.e. using defaults) system.
> > Agreed.
> And I don't.

Me neither. Even development environments produce enough logs to kill
a vserver before rotation occurs. Not all machines have access to
multigigabyte hard drives.

> > logrotate's default is rotate 4 weekly.
> There is many other defaults we don't follow ;)

And upstream default is shadow ;)

We can do better than default.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution


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