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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 23:44:13 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>
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Subject: Re: /var/log/messages > gzip?
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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


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