[ic] Rotating Error Logs

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Christopher VanOosterhout (chris@torresen.com):
> 
> 
> For some time now I have been working with an Interchange store that has 
> been somewhat crippled by my half-baked original installation.  Even with 
> my own errors it has been working very well.  Now I am starting from 
> scratch and going to try to do it right this time.
> 
> I have a question about the topic of "Rotating the Error Logs" in the 
> document "Getting Started."
> 
> It says: " . . . you need to create a log rotate job similar to the 
> following:
> 
> /home/merchant/catalogs/*/error.log
> {
> rotate 4
> weekly
> compress
> nocreate
> }
> 
> "
> 
> 
> So, what where do I put this information? In a file?  Where will the file 
> be located and how do I get it to run?
> 

That is a Linuxism, because I believe that guide was pointed
specifically toward Red Hat Linux (that is the one I did not write).

If you do run Linux, you can look in the directory /etc/logrotate.d/ and
find other similar files that are called by cron when it runs logrotate.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
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