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 - Barry

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Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of admin2
> Sent: 04 April 2003 17:31

>
> newbie admin:  running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable
>
> I am having a bit of trouble finding this.  Is there a FAQ or
> tutorial that
> discusses the "standard convention" of rotating log files?  I am seeing my
> /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog files cycling nicely, but
> I would like
> to know how to add other log files to this process.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Noah