logrotate Archives | Eric Thern :: thern dot org :: http://thern.org --------------=[ thern dot org ]=-------------- Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:28:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 logrotate Archives | Eric Thern :: thern dot org :: http://thern.org/linux-and-freebsd/logrotate-tweaks-to-enhance-rsync-backups/ http://thern.org/linux-and-freebsd/logrotate-tweaks-to-enhance-rsync-backups/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:19:55 +0000 Eric Thern http://thern.org/eric/?p=109 logrotate, by default (at least on CentOS as of 3, 4, and 5.x), rotates logs by incrementing all numbers on previous logs by one, and moving the current log to log.0

This is all fine and good if you like your logs to all be rotated in order, and have a certain number backed up:

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