From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 24 01:42:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA14266 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 01:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sliphost37.uni-trier.de (root@sliphost37.uni-trier.de [136.199.240.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA14261 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 01:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from blank@localhost) by sliphost37.uni-trier.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA16726; Sat, 24 May 1997 10:38:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Sascha Blank Message-Id: <199705240838.KAA16726@sliphost37.uni-trier.de> Subject: Re: Any program to maintain logs? In-Reply-To: <199705240459.AAA10773@federation.addy.com> from Francisco Reyes at "May 24, 97 00:56:39 am" To: francisco@natserv.com Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 10:38:09 +0200 (CEST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: blank@fox.uni-trier.de (Sascha Blank) X-System: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Sascha Blank - mailto:blank@fox.uni-trier.de Student and System Administrator at the University of Trier, Germany Finger my account to receive my Public PGP key I don't speak for my employers, they don't pay me enough for that.