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This is under DebianLinux. YourMileageMayVary under RedHat but it should be similar.
Oh, and this is all assuming that you are using syslog(3) to do your logging. If /var/log/logfilename is manually opened by whatever app you are using,
I dont know how logrotate will handle it, if at all. you may need to use the postrotate keyword in your logrotate file to trigger a -HUP to your app, or even restart it (icky).
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+If you do not specify a value for the rotate parameter it defaults to 0 (ie. it doesn't rotate any logs, just deletes the old one straight away)
