- keep 52 weeks (one year) of logs by default

[packages/logrotate.git] / logrotate.conf

diff --git a/logrotate.conf b/logrotate.conf
index cbe75083fcb05fc40a9905a7ec490a724e4d78fd..b61bf4be15e4b073cb4a123da03aefa47a75b0f6 100644 (file)
--- a/logrotate.conf
+++ b/logrotate.conf
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Rotate log files weekly.
 weekly
 
-# Keep 10 weeks worth of backlogs.
-rotate 10
+# Keep 52 weeks (one year) worth of backlogs.
+rotate 52
 
 # Rotate logs when they grow bigger than 100kB
 minsize 100k
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ nomail
 # Create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones.
 create 640 root logs
 
-# use date as a suffix of the rotated file
+# Use date as a suffix of the rotated file.
 dateext
 
 # Uncomment this if you want your log files compressed.
 compress
 
-# Postpone compression of the previous log file to the next rotation cycle.
+# Do not postpone compression of the previous log.
 nodelaycompress
 
 # If the log file is missing, go on to the next one without issuing