Bug 525946 – app-admin/syslog-ng: missing entry in the logrotate file

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2014-10-20 07:12:26 UTC]

While I'm using syslog-ng with hardened conf, I notice that we have:

auth.log
audit.log
daemon.log

and so on, but the syslog file in logrotate.d shows only messages, so not all files are rotated.

vrt ~ # cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng 
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.logrotate.in,v 1.1 2014/01/22 04:25:35 mr_bones_ Exp $                                                                                                                                                  
#                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
# Syslog-ng logrotate snippet for Gentoo Linux                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
# contributed by Michael Sterrett                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
#                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
/var/log/messages {                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
    missingok                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
    sharedscripts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
    postrotate                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
        /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
    endscript                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
}

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2014-10-20 07:16:05 UTC]

hardened is pretty much unmaintained.  You can use /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-3.5.6/syslog-ng.logrotate.hardened.bz2 as the start for customizing the logrotate config to suite your needs.