From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 1: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kfogmail.com (home.kfogmail.com [207.55.181.71]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A984443A for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 01:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.kfogmail.com([207.55.181.71]) (1371 bytes) by kfogmail.com via sendmail-kfogmail.com with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 03:01:14 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #5 built 1998-Apr-23) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 03:01:14 -0600 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain From: donv648@kfogmail.com To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to really archive mail logs? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > First off, you seem to be missing the -key. > Your paragraphs are all on one line. My apologies for the line length. POPMail (inc)... > Second, where did you get the idea its 24 hours since > _boot?_ Is that not true? If first boot is at 10:05am, cron will run newsyslog at 11:00 and each subsequent hour. I read this to mean the rotation origin is set to 11:00 every day, no? > Manpage... > For your example, the maillog file is rotated whenever > it has been 24 hours since newsyslog(8) last rotated it > (i.e. when the file's creation time is >24 hours). Where > did booting ever come into this? I think the solution is to change the newsyslog.conf entry to use a predictable absolute time so we don't have to determine newsyslog's hour of rotation before we make our copy. Does this sound right or am I still climbing the wrong tree? Thank you, Don .......................... Get your own free email! http://www.kfog.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message