diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3251eb5..a74e07d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 *.xz
 *.lzma
 *.bz2
+testdir
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 70400f9..721c1c8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,3 +10,20 @@ logmanager.tar: logmanager logarchiver logcompressor logcleaner Makefile
 	xz -c < $< > $@
 %.tar.bz2: %.tar
 	bzip2 -c < $< > $@
+
+testdir:
+	mkdir $@
+
+testdir/.lmtab: testdir
+	echo $</ \*.log 60 > $@.tmp
+	mv $@.tmp $@
+
+testdir/.prepare: testdir testdir/.lmtab
+	for f in `seq 1 10` ; do touch $</logfile$$f.log || exit 1 ; done
+	touch $</no_log
+	touch $</no.log.txt
+	touch $@
+
+test: testdir/.prepare testdir/.lmtab
+	./logmanager -nc testdir/.lmtab
+	./logmanager -Nc testdir/.lmtab