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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:12:16 -0500
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Subject: log rotation recommendations
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Hello,

Having recently moved from Linux (SuSE) to FreeBSD (6.2-p3) I'm  
wondering what the recommended way of rotating logs (principally  
postfix and apache).  I see that logrotate, with which I'm familiar,  
is in ports.  I also see that there is a file /etc/newsyslog.conf,  
but it looks like newsyslog(8) only knows about HUPping syslogd.

If there is no conventional "BSD way of doing this", I'll just  
install logrotate and go with what I know, but I thought I would  
check here first.

Thanks,

-j


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