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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:38:43 +0200
From:      "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To:        Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf questions
Message-ID:  <200301161939.h0GJdq014305@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20030116165546.GB6646@keyslapper.org>

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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.
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