When & how does logrotate run under Ubuntu 10.04?

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Published on 2010-06-02T14:36:10Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 14:44 UTC
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Hello,

I am new to sysadmining and have a few questions:

  1. Where and how is the logrotate procedure initaited by the system?
  2. What time of day are my "daily" rotated logfiles being rotated?
  3. Do the prerotate commands run for each log file matched in a *.log entry?

Thank you

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