[Samba] log rotation in samba

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote:
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote, On 21-09-2007 11:10:
>> Melanie Pfefer schrieb:
>>> Could you please share how you used logadm/logrotate
>>> to rotate samba logs?
>> Hmm, doesn't Samba rotate the logs by itself? I.e.:
> 
>> log level = 3
>> syslog = 0
>> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>> max log size = 5000
> 
> 	AFAIK, no.  This only tells samba how much information to
> keep in each file and how detailed they are. If you want to have
> history, you need to rotate it using something like logrotate.

It keeps one old revision, marked .old or something like that.

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