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So... I discovered that my wtmp file was really big today, like 2.1GB.
I deleted it and recreated it, but...
Is there any way I can tell logrotate to well, rotate the log?
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I've got a problem with apt-get update and apt-get install ... commands .
every time update or installing fails and errors are :
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://dl…
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sh@ubuntu:/home/ccpp/helloworld$ make
gcc-4.6 -O2 -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -isystem /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -c -o hello-1.o hello-1.c
hello-1.c:4:0: warning: "MODULE" redefined [enabled by default]
<command-line>:0:0: note: this is…
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I am having trouble accessing the several critical header files that show to be a part of the build process.
The "Ubuntu Software Center" shows "Build Essentials" as installed:
Next I did the following two commands, which did not improve the problem:
~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
[sudo]…
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I'm trying to update my Debian machine to 2.6.32-46 (which is the new stable). However, after doing apt-get update my apt-cache search linux-image shows me:
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-486 - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-486
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
linux-headers-2…
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I'm helping out with a project for an embedded device that only has USB and no serial. This device is running Linux.
These days, when we need to connect to a serial port on a device we typically use a USB to serial adapter (on something like a phone system or a load balancing device, etc). I would…
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Hi. I have a problem with nginx/logrotate. The problems is that nginx is logging access to 2 files (main and data).
I have the following contrab setting:
0 * * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /home/orwell/orwell-setup/bin/logrotate-nginx
And the file "logrotate-nginx" has the following content:
/tmp/data…
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I am trying to get logrotate running on a FreeBSD 8.1 virtual machine. I installed the logrotate with pkg_add, I have created the logrotate.config file and also run:
mkdir /var/lib/
touch /var/lib/logrotate.status
Now when I do:
/usr/local/sbin/logrotate -d /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf
I get…
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I have an ubuntu 8.04 LTS server that runs openvpn. The openvpn server writes to a standard logfile under /var/log and prior to a month ago logrotate would automatically rotate the files and compress them.
The files are still being rotated however the new logfile (ovpn.log) is empty. Restarting…
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Hello,
I have the following configuration of logrotate:
/var/log/test/app.log {
missingok
notifempty
compress
copytruncate
daily
rotate 4
}
The application generating the log is a Java application.
2
I set up this configuration yesterday before midnight…
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Hi!
If I have one website and I want to rotate its logs, there's one instance of logrotate that is launched.
There are as many logrotate instances launched as they are virtual websites.
Here you can find mod_log_rotate, with a 1.3 version and (only) 2.0 version:
http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index…
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