Large logfiles are a common problem. I always forget to install logrotate for this purpose and probably others do. I think, the package logrotate should be installed by default on a gentoo-linux installation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install gentoo 2. forget to emerge app-admin/logrotate 3. wait for large logfiles Actual Results: logfiles become bigger and bigger
By default I actually mean, it should be added to the documentation in the section of "system tools" (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9#doc_chap2).
Umm, doesn't the chapter you linked already say: "If you plan on using sysklogd or syslog-ng you might want to install logrotate afterwards as those system loggers don't provide any rotation mechanism for the log files."
Sorry, I must have missed that sentence.