[rsyslog] Max Log Size

[Michael Mansour]

Hi Scott,

> Seth Vidal asks a good question:
> 
> http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/fixed-size-log-outputs/
> 
> Basically he wants to know if you can have syslog output a fixed log 
> size, and the roll to another name? So say I only wanted 1 meg log 
> files, and then after I reach 1 meg change the name too foobar.log.1 
> or something.
> 
> I swear I thought this was possible with rsyslog, but I can't find 
> anything in the docs. Is it possible? Was I hallucinating when I 
> remembered this feature?

Logrotate is able to rotate based on file size. What you could do (as a
workaround if rsyslog can't do it directly) is use inotify or a similar tool
to monitor the log file and then when it reaches the size you want call
logrotate to do the logrotation.

Regards,

Michael.

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