Prevent Rsyslog from removing automatically syslog.gz files.

Question

Why ubuntu remove older syslog older than syslog.7.gz by default? How can I prevent that to happen? Thanks

Answer 1

Each package adds a file to /etc/logrotate.d/, that way logrotate knows when to remove or refresh log files for that package.

distcc, for example:

$ dpkg -L distcc | fgrep logrotate
/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/distcc

So /etc/logrotate.d/distcc contains the rules that logrotate will use.

You need to read the manpage for logrotate.

rsyslog doesn't do anything to rotate or remove log files.