How To Install syslog-ng-logrotate on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-ng-logrotate on CentOS 8.
What is syslog-ng-logrotate
This package provides a logrotate script for syslog-ng. It is only installed if ryslog is not on the system.
We can use yum or dnf to install syslog-ng-logrotate on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install syslog-ng-logrotate.
Install syslog-ng-logrotate on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install syslog-ng-logrotate using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install syslog-ng-logrotate
Install syslog-ng-logrotate on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install syslog-ng-logrotate using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install syslog-ng-logrotate
How To Uninstall syslog-ng-logrotate on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the syslog-ng-logrotate package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove syslog-ng-logrotate
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-ng-logrotate on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.