logrotate

Question 1

logrotate

Answer 1

logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files.

Question 2

logrotate

• d, –debug
• f, –force
• m, –mail=command
• s, –state=statefile
• v, –verbose
• l, –log=logfile

Answer 2

• d, –debug, Test and print debug messages.
• f, –force, Force file rotation.
• m, –mail=command, Command to send mail (instead of ‘/usr/bin/mail’).
• s, –state=statefile, Path of state file.
• v, –verbose
• l, –log=logfile, Log file or ‘syslog’ to log to syslog.

Question 3

logrotate [DIRECTIVES]

compress

compresscmd

uncompresscmd

compressext

compressoptions

copy

Answer 3

copytruncate

create mode owner group , create owner group

createolddir mode owner group

daily

dateext

dateformat format_string

dateyesterday

Question 4

logrotate [DIRECTIVES]

datehourago

delaycompress

extension ext

hourly

addextension ext

ifempty

Answer 4

include file or directory

mail address

mailfirst

maillast

minage count

maxage count

maxsize size

Question 5

logrotate [DIRECTIVES]

minsize size

missingok

monthly

nocompress

nocopy

nocopytruncate

Answer 5

nocreate

nocreateolddir

nodelaycompress

nodateext

nomail

nomissingok

noolddir

nosharedscripts

Question 6

logrotate [DIRECTIVES]

noshred

notifempty

olddir directory

postrotate/endscript

prerotate/endscript

firstaction/endscript

Answer 6

lastaction/endscript

preremove/endscript

rotate count

renamecopy

size size

sharedscripts

shred

Question 7

logrotate [DIRECTIVES]

shredcycles count

start count

su user group

Answer 7

tabooext [+] list

taboopat [+] list

weekly [weekday]

yearly