From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 24 19:01:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01552 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 19:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA01546 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 19:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-132 [207.14.72.132]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA01624; Sat, 24 May 1997 16:57:57 -0800 Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 17:40:29 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Joachim Kuebart cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD questions Subject: RE: Any program to maintain logs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 May 1997, Joachim Kuebart wrote: what if you want a portable log trimmer in a script (to avoid any C hacking/source accessing)? i see alot of man pages for new utilities as of late without a "HISTORY" section - so you can't tell how long, or on what platforms these utilities exist on. i wish freebsd-only utilities were an optional install. > in FreeBSD 2.2.2 there is "/etc/newsyslog.conf" and a new daemon, newsyslog, > that takes care of the exact problem.. > > On 24-May-97 at 04:56:39 Francisco Reyes wrote: > >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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------