Hey,
Trying to fix so that my logrotate will add a line at the top after each rotation so that /var/log/messages file wont be empty (dont want to disable lenght checking through bb client - since the log might be emptied if a box is hacked).
This is how my /etc/logrotate.d/syslog looks like:
/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler
/var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null 2>
/dev/null || true
endscript
}
This is what I think I should change it to (never touched these kinda files before):
/var/log/messages {
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null 2>
/dev/null || true
echo '### This file has been rotated by logrotate ###' >>
/var/log/messages
endscript
}
/var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log
/var/log/cron {
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null 2>
/dev/null || true
endscript
}
Will this work?
Thanks in advance for any advice :)