Re: [cobalt-security] Need some help on "spam" report

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 02:29  PM, Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Login with telnet
> type; pico -w /etc/logrotate.conf
> change the line "rotate 4" into say "rotate 60"
> hit ctrl-x to exit, save changes
>
> This will keep your logs for 60 days, the comment line above stating 
> 'keep
> logs 4 weeks' suggest that the value is the number of weeks. That is
> incorrect, it IS the number of days.

That is incorrect. rotate 4 specifies how many rotations to go through 
before a log file is deleted. From man logrotate:

rotate count
Log files are rotated <count> times before being removed or mailed to 
the address specified in a mail directive. If count is 0, old versions 
are removed rather then rotated.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/logrotate.8.html

To specify the number of days to keep a log, you would use daily, 
weekly or monthly.

In this case, you would want to change it to rotate monthly and then 
keep the logs for however long you like. 12 months maybe?

HTH,
j