Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 10:38:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Sascha Blank <blank@sliphost37.uni-trier.de> To: francisco@natserv.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any program to maintain logs? Message-ID: <199705240838.KAA16726@sliphost37.uni-trier.de> In-Reply-To: <199705240459.AAA10773@federation.addy.com> from Francisco Reyes at "May 24, 97 00:56:39 am"
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Hello Francisco,
Francisco Reyes has written recently:
> Is there a program in FreeBSD that can be used to trimm log files? I am
> interested in a program which could keep either a determined number of
> lines per file or lines which are a determined number of days old.
if you are talking about system log files, then FreeBSD already offers
such a fine tool: it's called newsyslog(1). It's in 2.2.x for sure, and
if I'm not mistaken also in 2.1.x. In addition to this it will handle
also many "user generated" log files.
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