logrotate

How to build and install logrotate on HP-UX 11.00 (these instructions should
also work on HP-UX 10.20):

1. Obtain and install the following GNU packages for HP-UX:
   binutils 2.9.1
   gcc 2.95.2
   make 3.78.1
   I used the packages at the Software Porting and Archive Centre for HP-UX
   at http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/.

   Obtain and install the following GNU/Linux to HP-UX Porting package:
   libhplx library
   See http://devresource.hp.com/LPK/index.html for downloads.
   This library is needed to provide the ??? function.

2. Obtain, build, and install popt 1.4 (there doesn’t seem to be a build at
   the Porting Centre.)
   See ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/popt-1.6.4.tar.gz
   Install it into the directory of your choice (i.e.
   “./configure --prefix=/opt/popt”).

3. Build logrotate, telling it where to find popt and hplx installation. The
   POPT_DIR defaults to /usr/local and HPLX_DIR defaults to /usr/local/hplx:
   gmake POPT_DIR=/usr/local HPLX_DIR=/usr/local/hplx

4. Install logrotate into your desired directory (BASEDIR defaults to
   /usr/local):
   gmake install BASEDIR=/usr/local

5. Copy the configuration files into your desired location.
   cp examples/logrotate.conf /etc/logrotate.conf
   mkdir /etc/logrotate.d
   cp examples/?tmp /etc/logrotate.d

6. Set up a cron job to run logrotate daily. See examples/logrotate.cron.

7. I also recommend setting CLEAN_ADM=0 in /etc/rc.config.d/clean, and
   setting up an init script to use logrotate for this instead. This way,
   logrotate manages all logfile pruning.

Questions, comments, abuse to:
Paul D. Gear [email protected], [email protected]
Danial M. Howard [email protected], [email protected]