From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 27 14:29:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7829A37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alson@mediadesign.nl) Received: (qmail 19291 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Aug 2001 21:29:30 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 23:29:30 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleting or clearing logs Message-ID: <20010827232930.E7358@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:19:35PM +0000, Not Going to Tell You wrote: > We would like to clear all log files prior to running scanner software > against FreeBSD in order to record new log entries. Does anyone have a list > of the important logs to clear and the proper technique to use to clear > these logs? man 8 newsyslog /etc/newsyslog.conf > FYI...We are working on a Security FAQ that will correspond various error > messages in the logs to know kacks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message