Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:09:09 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to add service to log in newsyslog.conf? Message-ID: <20020818110909.GC2079@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <1029631750.38776.229.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> References: <1029631750.38776.229.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 01:49:08AM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Its all working fine, but I would like to have newsyslog manage to log
> files generated (define rotation schedule, log-size limitation, etc).
> Could someone please advise me on doing this?
Err... You just add more lines to /etc/newsyslog.conf --- the
newsyslog(1) man page explains the syntax quite clearly. So, to cycle
the ftpd log every Friday at 5.00pm, and keep the previous 4 old
logfiles compressed with gzip(1) (ie. ftpd.0.gz, ftpd.1.gz, ftpd.2.gz
ftpd.3.gz) add a line:
/var/log/ftpd 644 3 * $W5D17 Z
That's all there is to it.
Cheers,
Matthew
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