logrotate - Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files
| License: | GPL+ |
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| Vendor: | Fedora Project |
- Description:
The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the log files on your system.
Packages
| logrotate-3.7.8-4.fc12.x86_64 [50 KiB] |
Changelog
by Daniel Novotny (2009-09-17):
- fix #517321 (logrotate blocking anacron) |