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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:12:17 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cyclic filesystem (WAS: Re: truss, trace ??)
Message-ID:  <199701140742.SAA26993@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199701140730.IAA12755@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Jan 14, 97 08:30:30 am"

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Mikael Karpberg stands accused of saying:
> According to Michael Smith:
> > Mikael Karpberg stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > I for one couldn't care less how good the implementation is. I would just
> > > like a nice efficient way of making any logfile max out at a certain size,
> > 
> > 'man newsyslog'
> 
> Huh? "No manual entry for newsyslog". I must say, though, that I just run
> 2.1.6, if that makes a difference.

Er, yes.  You should be posting on the 'old farts' mailing list 8)

Seriously, newsyslog is a 2.2-ism; basically it takes care of the issue
you've raised in a low-overhead fashion suitable for logfiles.

>   /Mikael

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