Problem with logrotate

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mnowak02

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Hey
I got logrotate file like below

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# use date as a suffix of the rotated file
dateext

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
minsize 1M
rotate 1
}

/var/log/btmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0600 root utmp
rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.

And I would like to change file messages located in /var/log/ when there are a lot of logs inside. After reach 500MB size I want to copy to /var/log/old and the old file messages was clear and so on. I want that files in /var/log/old have various name e.g. messages_date,messages_date.....
Can you look that everything is ok?Have I change only file logrotate.conf or something else??

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# use date as a suffix of the rotated file
dateext

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
minsize 1M
rotate 1
}

/var/log/btmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0600 root utmp
rotate 1
}

/var/log/messages
{
rotate 20
create
size=500M #or size 500M ??
olddir /var/log/old
}
 


size 500M
Also syslog must be restarted. Something like:
Code:
postrotate
killall -HUP syslogd #or "reload rsyslog"
endscript
Take look at /etc/logrotate.d/*syslog*
 

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