Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 03:01:14 -0600 (CST) From: donv648@kfogmail.com To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to really archive mail logs? Message-ID: <m12Gec6-003GIMC@kfogmail.com>
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> First off, you seem to be missing the <enter>-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
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