Changeset 58720a7b for general

Timestamp:

07/09/2014 01:52:45 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

Fernando de Oliveira <fernando@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

30fe7dd

Parents:

8abba5b9

Message:

Update to MesaLib-10.2.3.
Update to webkitgtk-2.4.4.
Logrotate-3.8.7: typo, tweaks, more explanations.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@13365 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/sysutils/logrotate.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

general/sysutils/logrotate.xml

@@ -173 +173 @@
 
 # End of /etc/logrotate.conf
-EOF</userinput></screen>
+EOF
+
+chmod -v 0644 /etc/logrotate.conf</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now create the <filename class='directory'>/etc/logrotate.d</filename>
@@ -185 +187 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/logrotate.d/sys.log &lt;&lt; EOF
-sys.log {
+/var/log/sys.log {
    # If the log file is larger than 100kb, rotate it
    size   100k
@@ -194 +196 @@
    endscript
 }
-EOF</userinput></screen>
-
-  <para>See the logrotate man page or 
+EOF
+
+chmod -v 0644 /etc/logrotate.d/sys.log</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>You can designate multiple files in one entry:</para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/logrotate.d/example.log &lt;&lt; EOF
+file1
+file2
+file3 {
+   ...
+   postrotate
+    ...
+   endscript
+}
+EOF
+
+chmod -v 0644 /etc/logrotate.d/example.log</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>You can use in the same line the list of files: file1 file2 file3.
+  See the logrotate man page or 
   <ulink url='http://www.techrepublic.com/article/manage-linux-log-files-with-logrotate/'/>
   for more examples.</para>
 
   <para>The command <command>logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf</command> can be
-  run manually, however, the command should be run daily.  
-  To set up <xref linkend='fcron'/> to run at 3AM daily, root's crontab
-  should be edited to add:</para>
+  run manually, however, the command should be run daily.
+  Other useful commands are <command>logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf</command>
+  for debugging purposes and <command>logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf</command>
+  forcing the logrotate commands to be run immediately. Combining the previous
+  options <option>-df</option>, you can debug the effect of the force command.
+  When debugging, the command is only simulated, not really run, thus, eventual
+  non-existing errors appear, when some intermediate files are expected,
+  because they are not actually created.</para>
+
+  <para>To set up <xref linkend='fcron'/> to run
+  <command>logrotate ...</command> at 3AM daily, root's crontab should be
+  edited to add:</para>
 
 <screen><literal>0 3 * * *   /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf</literal></screen>