[LUNI] var is too small

scott thomason scott at thomasons.org
Fri Nov 1 08:31:01 CST 2002


On Oct 31 05:04 PM, Martin Maney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:29:25PM -0800, Keith Garner wrote:
> > Another thing to look at is how logrotate is configured.  By default it 
> > doesn't compress the rotated logs.
> 
> Really?  It must be a Debian tradition, then, because I always expect
> log files to go foo, foo.0, foo.1.gz, foo.2.gz, ...

Recently, Redhat (7.3? 8.0?) switched to not-compressed-by-default also. What's
the rationale behind that, anyway? Especially since "less" is normally configured
to decompress on the fly?
---scott



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