I setup a seperate startup script that runs the unix standard logrotator 
command.  Run this script before Networker startup.  

/etc/rc2.d/S78networker-logrotate 


more /etc/init.d/networker-logrotate
#!/bin/sh
#(echo 'rotating NetWorker Messages:') > /dev/console
#if [ -f /usr/local/sbin/logrotate ]; then
#        (/usr/local/sbin/logrotate /opt/local/etc/networker-
logrotate.conf; /bi
n/sleep 15) > /dev/console 2>&1
#        (echo 'rotated Networker Messages') > /dev/console
#fi


This is what my logrotator.conf for networker looks like
# sample logrotate configuration file
daily
rotate 21
create
compress
missingok

/nsr/logs/messages {
    olddir /nsr/logs/OLD
    prerotate
        /etc/init.d/networker stop
    endscript
}



I like this approach for a couple reasons. 

1.  I can tell by looking at the dates of the rotated messages files when 
my server was rebooted.  

2.  Networker writes to the messages file through the syslog daemon and I 
know the syslog daemon has been restarted at boot.


Why hasn't EMC/Legato provided a built in log rotation of the messages 
file yet?  This has been a problem for many, many, years.  


Nancy Magers
Brown University - CIS  

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