# Is the the logrotate initialisation correct?
**URL:** https://forum.legato.io/t/is-the-the-logrotate-initialisation-correct/2953
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 11, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/is-the-the-logrotate-initialisation-correct/2953 "2018-01-11T09:19:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@AlBo](https://forum.legato.io/u/AlBo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/is-the-the-logrotate-initialisation-correct/2953/1 "2018-01-11T09:19:46Z")
Hello,
I took a look at the logrotate initialisation because I need lot of logs right now to develop my app taking care to not fill up the available space.
But I saw that the config file is not `/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog` but `/etc/logrotate.d/syslog` instead.
well ok maybe but in it, I can see:
```
postrotate
/etc/init.d/rsyslog reload 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
```
But again there is no `/etc/init.d/rsyslog` but `/etc/init.d/syslog` instead and again in it I can see:
```
NAME=rsyslog
....
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
```
So it’s confusing !?!
Alain
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### Author:  [@lotam](https://forum.legato.io/u/lotam)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2018, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/is-the-the-logrotate-initialisation-correct/2953/2 "2018-01-11T10:03:52Z")
What about /etc/syslog-startup.conf ?
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### Author:  [@AlBo](https://forum.legato.io/u/AlBo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/is-the-the-logrotate-initialisation-correct/2953/3 "2018-01-11T10:09:16Z")
/etc/syslog-startup.conf is
```
DESTINATION=buffer # log destinations (buffer file remote)
LOGFILE=/var/log/messages # where to log (file)
REMOTE=loghost:514 # where to log (syslog remote)
REDUCE=no # reduce-size logging
DROPDUPLICATES=no # whether to drop duplicate log entries
#ROTATESIZE=0 # rotate log if grown beyond X [kByte]
#ROTATEGENS=3 # keep X generations of rotated logs
BUFFERSIZE=2000 # size of circular buffer [kByte]
FOREGROUND=no # run in foreground (don't use!)
#LOGLEVEL=5 # local log level (between 1 and 8)
```
And so?
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### Author:  [@lotam](https://forum.legato.io/u/lotam)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/is-the-the-logrotate-initialisation-correct/2953/4 "2018-01-11T10:25:15Z")
Hi AlBo,
Maybe I misunderstand the question? Would you please clarify?
I guess you are asking how to modify the log buffer size to save big log from your app?
If yes, then we can modify and increase the default “BUFFERSIZE”.
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### Author:  [@AlBo](https://forum.legato.io/u/AlBo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/is-the-the-logrotate-initialisation-correct/2953/5 "2018-01-11T10:29:39Z")
> [@AlBo](#):
>
> syslog-startup.conf
I’m surprised by the confusion referencing `rsyslog` in where the files are named `syslog` in several places.
Now, if busybox uses `/etc/syslog-startup.conf` it’s again more confusing to me. Why the usual configuration files are still here and finally what is actually used and not used?
Alain
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### Author:  [@lotam](https://forum.legato.io/u/lotam)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/is-the-the-logrotate-initialisation-correct/2953/6 "2018-09-27T02:17:34Z")
Hi Alain,
Does this issue solved?
Do you have chance to test configure “/etc/syslog-startup.conf” and see what happen?
Thx