[svlug] Complicated logs rotation under cron and date format in Linux/Unix

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:47:12PM -0800, Rafael Skodlar wrote:
> Ever wondered why they rotate empty files?
(...)
> After 4 weeks you can't tell what the boot messages were.

You can have logrotate rotate files based on their size instead of time.

Of course, that requires a little reading and configuration :-)

Marc
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