From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 11 02:36:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1D716A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:36:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal.netaxs.com (postal.netaxs.com [207.8.186.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B6443D55 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:36:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from clear@alum.mit.edu) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (root@unix5.netaxs.com [207.8.186.7]) iBB2aNup004813 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:36:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41BA5D20.6000405@alum.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:36:16 -0500 From: Jed Clear Organization: Dis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Logs and Logging in Handbook? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:36:19 -0000 While trying to remember where to add additional files to the log rotation, I tried the handbook first. Is there some reason there isn't a page on logs and log maintenance in the Sys Admin section of the handbook? Even if the syslog man page (my next stop) is good enough, I'd think logs should get a mention in the handbook. Might also want to mention dmesg and uname there, and other items that help you monitor your system. After searching, I see that syslog.conf and newsyslog are buried down in 11.10.3. But that doesn't do much with why and what. I still think a section on monitoring, a little higher in the hierarchy, would be useful. -Jed