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Old 04-03-2008
Question Disabling logrotate
Is there a way to disable log rotation? (just for wtmp)
I'm looking in /etc/logrotate.conf and I checked the man page but didn't see any option to disable. Is it as simple as commenting out monthly and rotate lines?
Code:
/var/log/wtmp {
    missingok
#    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
#    rotate 1
}

It would use the global configuration settings (which is 4 weekly rotations) for wtmp after wouldn't it? I just want 1 log file, no removing or rotations for wtmp.

Thanks!
Primal
# 2  
Old 04-04-2008
I'm not exactly sure, but in the man pages it says :
Quote:
Note that comments may appear anywhere in the config file as long as the first non-whitespace character on the line is a #.
, so I assume you can just comment those out, restart logrotate and see if it works. Don't forget to copy the original conf file.
# 3  
Old 04-14-2008
Thanks for your help sysgate!
 
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