Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:10:51 +0300 From: Jim Xochellis <dxoch@escape.gr> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About newsyslog behavior Message-ID: <DCAC79DC-AD2D-11D7-BFD9-003065C4E486@escape.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030702160429.GA18780@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Hi Matthew, hi list, On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 07:04 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: [...] > > samba can also generate a lot of log files depending on > configuration. However, it also can be configured to put out all > of it's logging information via syslog(3). Samba is also capable > of recycling it's own log files. See the 'max log size' entry in > smb.conf: > > http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#MAXLOGSIZE > A Very useful peace of information! Thanks, I haven't noticed that. > >> I am thinking about changing the newsyslog instead (adding an option) >> but I am such a newbie in Unix, makefiles and all this stuff (except >> c) > > Go for it. The ideal would probably be to add another flag to the > 'flags' column to go with the BCGJNUWZ- flags it already understands, > so that you can apply the 'file descriptor friendly' method of Thats exactly what I had in my mind. > updating on a per-file basis. Unless you're going to be adding whole > new files to the newsyslog sources, then you shouldn't need to modify > any Makefiles at all. > It seems I am lucky :-) Best Regards, Jim Xochellis
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