How to make only /var/log/messages be rotated daily

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Issue

  • How can we configure logrotate so that only /var/log/messages gets rotated daily? For example, we want /var/log/secure to still be rotated monthly.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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