From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 10:53:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bespoke.alltel.net (h216-170-019-170.adsl.navix.net [216.170.19.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F4A37B479 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (phaedrus@localhost) by bespoke.alltel.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9KHs3K06495 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:54:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from phaedrus@alltel.net) X-Authentication-Warning: bespoke.alltel.net: phaedrus owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:54:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Cantrell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Log File Archiving Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After installing 4.1 and CVS'ing to 4.1.1, I find this error message daily in the croned e-mail to root ****** Subject: FOO.BAR.net security check output (NOT RELEVANT JUNK DELETED -DRC) FOO.BAR.net login failures: /var/log/messages.0*.gz: No such file or directory FOO.BAR.net refused connections: /var/log/messages.0*.gz: No such file or directory ****** If memory serves, this file should be the archived "messages" file (as do the cron/sendmail.st/maillog files), and I do not recall having this problem with 3.X and 4.0. Try as I may, I cannot remember/figure out how to turn on the archiving for this particular file. Anyone care to refresh my memory? drc -- Dave Cantrell | Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is User Friendly. phaedrus@alltel.net | It's just choosy with whom it makes friends. Lincoln, Nebraska, USA | And currently we have only a nodding acquaintance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message