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> > in particular. Why is this? What funciton actually handles the log file > > rotation? What exactly is this rotation? And is there any "standard > > sysadmin" way of rotating these logs? Whew... probably too many > > questions, all answered by one asnwer. Any suggestions or ideas would be > > helpful :-) > Redhat (and probably other distributions) comes with the logrotate package, > which contains the logrotate(8) utility. Basically it's something like this; mv /path/log.6 /path/log.7 mv /path/log.5 /path/log.6 mv /path/log.4 /path/log.5 mv /path/log.3 /path/log.4 mv /path/log.2 /path/log.3 mv /path/log.1 /path/log.2 mv /path/log.0 /path/log.1 mv /path/log /path/log.0 >/path/log I haven't seen the logrotate utility but I assume it does something similar. If you do this daily you save a weeks backup of logs. Weekly it would save two months, etc. You could gzip or whatever and rotate the compressed files. Use your imagination! <grin> _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug