[Sunhelp] Checking var.

Brian Scanlan singer at redbrick.dcu.ie
Tue Mar 28 12:02:39 CST 2000


On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:27:02PM -0500, Derek Piper wrote:
> 	Is this for Solaris?

Sunhelp - The Solaris list where people don't assume that we're all talking
about Sun/Solaris. ;)

> ... If it were Linux I'd suggest tweaking the
> /etc/logrotate.conf and the appropriate script in /etc/logrotate.d and
> adding 'compress' in there so your logs are compressed as well as being
> rotated weekly or so. 

This doesn't even ship with every distro. of Linux.

> 	Does Solaris have something similar? (if not, why not? :))

There are squidillions of implementations of log rotations scripts available on the
net. It's trivial to create your own suitable ones, perfectly customised...

Brian.
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