NCIDROTATE(1)

💖 NCIDROTATE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual — yes we're fancy, no we're not boring, sit down, hydrate, and let's talk about ncidrotate.

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✨ NAME ✨

ncidrotate — the lil helper that keeps some lines hanging around in cidcall.log even after it gets rotated 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ncidrotate {prerotate|postrotate}

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the NCID log rotation module? it's normally just vibing in the /usr/share/ncid/sys directory. that's home. that's where it lives. 🏠

ncidrotate gets called by /etc/logrotate.d/ncid, and its whole job — its entire main character purpose — is to keep a certain number of lines in cidcall.log after rotation happens. like, logrotate is out here doing its thing and ncidrotate is like "wait, hold onto these, bestie." 😭

and yes, the default is 0 lines kept. zero. nada. none. the log gets rotated and the lines are gone-gone. 🫶

the config file for logrotate is /etc/ncid/ncidrotate.conf — that's where you go if you want to change the vibe (aka the line count).

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⭐ REQUIREMENTS ⭐

• logrotate — it rotates, compresses and mails system logs. it's giving multitasking queen. 👑

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /usr/share/ncid/sys/ncidrotate
• /etc/ncid/ncidrotate.conf
• /etc/logrotate.d/ncid

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ncidrotate.conf.5
• rotatebysize.conf.5
• ncidd.8

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and that's the whole page, no cap. this was NCIDROTATE(1) from the General Commands Manual — go forth, rotate responsibly, and remember: zero lines kept is the default, so if you want your log to have leftovers you gotta say so. mwah 💋✨