From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20030509 Description of problem: I have a logrotate feature request : oldsize size Old log files are removed (oldest first) when they together grow bigger then size bytes until they are less than size bytes. If size is followed by M, the size if assumed to be in megabytes. If the k is used, the size is in kilobytes. So size 100, size 100k, and size 100M are all valid. This way you won't fill up your disk with old log files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. irrelevant. this is a feature request 2. 3. Additional info:
I tried adding this feature, but it was taking too long and wasn't worth the time. I'd be happy to take a patch though.
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.