Ramblings

I just got logrotate installed on Gollum this afternoon. I must say, it’s not done like I would have expected. I would have expected some daemon that runs in the background and wakes up to do it’s work, but instead you have to add it to the crontab. I guess that makes sense too, but Gentoo doesn’t say anything about that at installation. I set up the messages log, apache logs files, and mail logs to be rotated out weekly, but it’s supposed to keep 12 weeks of compressed logs around before finally emailing me the oldest as it’s rotated out.

Gollum had a little hickup this morning as many of you noticed. For some reason my cable modem wouldn’t renew it’s DHCP lease. When the lease died, so did my connection. Thankfully when I reset the modem it just started working again and I kept my old IP. I had to make a trip to my apartment for lunch just do fix everything, but it wasn’t so bad afterall. I may just start going back there everyday.