Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:11:39 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog question Message-ID: <199510090341.NAA08457@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510090239.TAA19245@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Yen-Wei Liu" at Oct 9, 95 10:20:40 am
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Yen-Wei Liu stands accused of saying: > I got a question here about syslogd : the syslogd seems to keep a track > of its output files, such as maillog, maillog.0, etc.. > I just don't understand how it decides when it's necessary to move up > to a new file name (i.e. move maillog to maillog.0 and create a new maillog). > > Does anybody know the rules ? It's important for us to have the system logs > as a whole part. System log rotation is performed by the /etc/daily script, run by cron. > Yen-Wei Liu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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