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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: rotating audit logs
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:37:33 -0500
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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 10:31, Bill Tangren wrote:
> Is is possible to have the auditd daemon rotate the logs according to time,
> rather than size?

There is a log rotation script suitable for cron usage in the audit package. 
You just simply need to add it to your cron setup.

> If auditd cannot do this, is it possible to turn off log rotating and let
> the logrotate daemon do it?

You could do that too, but you'll have to teach logrotate about the audit 
logs.

-Steve