Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 03:30:08 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chris Stankevitz <chris@stankevitz.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: passing -t to newsyslog Message-ID: <20170222033008.6550f098.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <37474b63-e395-b1e2-6dcf-114dfaa36fc1@stankevitz.com> References: <37474b63-e395-b1e2-6dcf-114dfaa36fc1@stankevitz.com>
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:21:13 -0800, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hi, > > I want to pass -t to newsyslog so that archived log files have a useful > date/time suffix vs an obnoxious numeric suffix. > > Apparently freebsd uses /etc/crontab to launch newsyslog. The manual > tells me to not edit /etc/crontab [1] > > How should I get my freebsd system to append date/time to archived > logfile names? Configure newsyslog command line flags as intended by addind an entry to /etc/rc.conf, for example: newsyslog_enable="YES" newsyslog_flags="-t <format>" See /etc/defaults/rc.conf for newsyslog-related examples. Maybe you also want to add the options -C and -N (which are the default if you don't specify anything) because /etc/rc.conf will override (instead of append to) the settings in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. See "man rc.conf" and "man newsyslog" for details. There is also /etc/newsyslog.conf for settings you might want to tweak. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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