From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 14:46:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 14:46:56 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDA3237B402 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:46:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 40150 invoked by uid 100); 14 Dec 2000 22:46:55 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14905.19934.982531.86326@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:46:54 -0600 (CST) To: Daniel Frazier Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logs saved in date-format In-Reply-To: <62838866@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Frazier types: > Randy Primeaux wrote: > > How do I configure newsyslog to rollover old logs into a > > date-formatted filename? e.g. /var/log/messages.20001213.gz > you don't, although there are ports that replace newsyslog that do > save rolled over log files with a date stamp if you have to have that > functionality. Now, now, don't be so negative. While a port is probably the easier way, all things are possible with OSS systems and the configuration compiler that works for almost anything - gcc :-). http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message