Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 04, 2005 10:35 PM
I use this all the time, in conjunction with syslogd, for our firewall logs. We set the PIXs to export their logs to a GNU/Linux syslog server with a big disk, and it's rotated once a day. Logrotate is a very handy tool for what it does.
I've also used it for NetFlow information coming off of Cisco routers. Back before I learned that the excellent (and GPL'd) Flow-Tools have file rotation in them similar to logrotate's, I was having logrotate do the file rotation daily. Now, of course, I tell flow-receive to do it itself [<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-) ], but logrotate is good for this too, or any other app that doesn't have logrotate-like functionality built in it.
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I use it for Cisco PIX logs and NetFlow
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 04, 2005 10:35 PMI've also used it for NetFlow information coming off of Cisco routers. Back before I learned that the excellent (and GPL'd) Flow-Tools have file rotation in them similar to logrotate's, I was having logrotate do the file rotation daily. Now, of course, I tell flow-receive to do it itself [<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-) ], but logrotate is good for this too, or any other app that doesn't have logrotate-like functionality built in it.
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