From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 13 15:53:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85BB537B735 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@brwn.org) Received: by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6B96C1D9D; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:53:02 +0200 (SAST) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:53:01 +0200 From: Willem Brown To: Robert Banniza Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rotating Logs... Message-ID: <20000814005301.D15267@snoopy.brwn.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from robert@rootprompt.net on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:51:46PM -0500 X-Public-Key: http://willem.brwn.org/pubkey.txt X-Chat-Server: http://chat.brwn.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I would imagine that newsyslog is what you are looking for. man newsyslog /etc/newsyslog.conf On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:51:46PM -0500, Robert Banniza wrote: > Guys, > Excuse my ignorance on this one but coming from a Linux OS has me a little > confused. Can anyone tell me if the logs on FreeBSD are rolled up and > rotated on a constant basis? If so, how is this done? I installed logrotate > the other night from /usr/port/sysutils but I don't want it if it is going > to interfere with a native log rotation scheme built upon FreeBSD. I'm > running 4.1 Stable. I don't want /var filling up with old stagnant logs. I > would appreciate any information on this. > > Thanks > Robert > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > Best Regards Willem Brown -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message