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Re: Error with logrotate.

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Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 August 2019 02:24:34 deloptes wrote:
> [...]
>> I am not aware of any program I've been using 
>> for the past 15y that would have a problem writing in /var/log
>
> Then tell me how fetchmail, procmail, clamav or spamd running as me, can 
> keep their logs in /var/log, the permissions just aren't there after a 
> reboot.

Aren't all four of those system services; with their own system users,
with their own directories in /var/log (or well, at least by default)?

>> [...]
>> Logrotate also does not need to be modified - only for your custom
>> stuff, so it is expected and desired and it is easy to adjust.
>
> Maybe for someone intimately fam with how it works, not so easy on a 
> onetime basis after an install. One doesn't get familiar enough, nor 
> manage to commit it to short term memory.

Assuming a Debian-standard /etc/logrotate.conf; it should give one the
necessary examples to set up a functioning schedule for things in their
$HOME (or other places).


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Error with logrotate. Philip <philip@treads.nz> - 2019-08-12 23:40 +0200
  Re: Error with logrotate. Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2019-08-13 06:10 +0200
    Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 06:40 +0200
      Re: Error with logrotate. Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-08-13 07:10 +0200
      Re: Error with logrotate. Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-08-13 07:40 +0200
        Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 11:00 +0200
      Re: Error with logrotate. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-13 08:30 +0200
        Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 11:20 +0200
          Re: Error with logrotate. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-08-13 12:00 +0200
            Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 16:00 +0200
              Re: Error with logrotate. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-08-13 19:20 +0200
                Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 19:40 +0200
          Re: Error with logrotate. Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-08-13 21:10 +0200
            Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 22:00 +0200
            Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 22:30 +0200
        Re: OT: While we're talking about logrotate (was: Re: Error with logrotate.) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-13 14:10 +0200
    Re: Error with logrotate. Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-08-13 07:10 +0200
  Re: Error with logrotate. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-13 15:20 +0200

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