Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 23:44:13 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/log/messages > gzip? Message-ID: <20000902234413.A62475@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.21.0009030008330.69846-100000@inca.gate.net>; from wjm@gate.net on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:09:34AM -0400 References: <Pine.A41.4.21.0009022359110.69846-100000@inca.gate.net> <Pine.A41.4.21.0009030008330.69846-100000@inca.gate.net>
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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:09:34AM -0400, William Melanson wrote: > > Hello, > > Where might I find the script that gzip's sendmail's maillog on a daily > basis? I'd like to tinker around with it whereas it can perform the same > services to /var/log/messages. See newsyslog(8). By default, it does archive messages, but rather than daily, it does so when it reaches a certain size. Look at the newsyslog.conf file to see the current configuration for newsyslog. > Apparently /etc/periodic wants > /var/log/messages to be gzip as well. These error messages: > "/var/log/messages.0*.gz: No such file or directory" are weighing heavily > upon my patience :) This is a different issue. It occurs in the /etc/security file which is run out of /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security. The easiest way to get rid of it is just to, # touch /var/log/messages.0.gz -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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