Re: [SLUG] do all logs in /var/log get rotated, or where is that ?

[Kevin Saenz <ksaenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You have a psudo deamon called logrotate.d  it's a cron job that runs on 
a daily basis and reads the
config files in both /etc/ and /etc/logrotate.d/ directories.

> what motivates various log files in /var/log to be rotated ?
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> if I have a script that logs to /var/log/mylog.log, will that get rotated,
> or, where do I enrol it , should I wish to have it rotated (and I probably
> do not, it writes one entry per day)
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