logrotate-3.6.5-r1 rotates *most* files in /var/log *daily* even though /etc/logrotate.conf (and the other logrotate config files) do not include directions to do so. (The default configuration file specifies to rotate /var/log/wtmp monthly.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge logrotate. (cron runs logrotate.) Actual Results: files that _are_ rotated _daily_ even though there is NO mention in any logrotate config file: (in /var/log) auth.log cron.log daemon.log debug imap.log kern.log lpr.log mail.log mail.err messages pop.log syslog user.log uucp files that are _not_ rotated: (in /var/log) lastlog ntpd.log pop-before-smtp Expected Results: (Because wtmp is the only file specified in the default configuration) only wtmp should be rotated [monthly]. It appears that any/all of the files being rotated are syslog files (i.e., specified in /etc/syslog.conf)
Doh - I did not realize that syslog rotates it's own files. (Nowhere in the syslog man page does it say _anything_ about the /etc/cron.daily/syslog.cron file or /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles.) I discovered the cron.daily script quite by accident. I apologize. :^(
