From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 11:39:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B503C37B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:39:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E00F43F13 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:39:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h0GJdq014305; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:39:52 +0200 Message-Id: <200301161939.h0GJdq014305@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 16 Jan 03 21:39:14 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 16 Jan 03 21:38:52 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Louis LeBlanc , questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:38:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf questions In-reply-to: <20030116165546.GB6646@keyslapper.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! > What I need to do obviously, is get my auth.log to roll from time to > time. Preferably on a monthly basis. > > The thing is, what, if anything, should I put in the PIDFILE and > SIGNAL fields to ensure the daemon resumes logging to a new auth.log > rather than continuing to log to the one that's been rolled and > possibly compressed? I don't think you need to put anything into PIDFILE and SIGNAL fields for auth.log. I don't have anything specified, and the log rolls over just fine. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Top Secret! Burn before reading! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message