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09-19-2011, 11:06 AM

Bluz

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How to disable logrotate

can anyone tell me how to disable log rotate? on a centos 5.6 server? thanks. All I found on google was how to make it weekly or monthly/daily.

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09-19-2011, 11:19 AM

almanox

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put
exit 0
as the first line (after shebang) in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

09-20-2011, 06:41 AM

ssfred

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Hello

Changing the permission of /etc/cron.daily/logrotate to non executable would work

chmod 000 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

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