[WBEL-users] Web Log Files - HUGE

Thomas Swan tswan@idigx.com
Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:47:26 -0500


Ladar Levison wrote:

>Jeff --
>
>By default, logrotate should rotate the logs every week, and keep up to
>four weeks worth. Perhaps you accidently stopped the cron the job from
>running.
>
>Make sure this log-rotate script is still set to run daily. Also note
>that you can have logrotate compress your log files, which might be a
>good idea in your case (if you don't mind the overhead).
>
>  
>
Another really useful option is "delaycompress"

The current log and the most recently rotated copy are uncompressed for
searching, etc.  Older rotations are fully compressed.