[LUAU] logs

[Chris Wong]

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, David C Eason Jr wrote:

> I check my logs every few days, I find it really annoying that it appends
> new logs to the older ones, is there a way, (method or program) to force
> linux to start new log files with diff names for each day, so for instance
> my access_log doesn't go back to the first day I set linux up?

What distribution do you use?

There is a program called logrotate which does what you describe.



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