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logrotate - Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files.

License: GPL
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of
log files on a system which generates a lot of log files.  Logrotate
allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of
log files.  Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly,
monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size.  Normally,
logrotate runs as a daily cron job.

Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the
log files on your system.

Packages

logrotate-3.7.4-12.i386 [41 KiB] Changelog by Jan Kaluza (2011-03-30):
- fix #474013 - mention scripts arguments in man page
- fix #461494 - proper exit code when logrotate.status is corrupted
- fix #484075 - logrotate "size" directive can exceed 1895825408 bytes
- fix #485553 - add proper /var/log/btmp pattern into default logrotaet config
- fix #540119 - fixed missingok problem with globs
- fix #567365 - handle errors during rename call
- fix #638591 - better documentation of "size" parameter
- fix #622059 - mention authors in man page
- fix #579680 - fixed logrotate postrotate script args with nosharedscripts
- fix #642936 - mention all options in manpage
- fix #574784 - prevent recursive include

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