From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 4 11:38:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96F916A417 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:38:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mksmith@adhost.com) Received: from mail-defer01.adhost.com (mail-defer01.adhost.com [216.211.128.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C678813C4CE for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:38:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mksmith@adhost.com) Received: from mail-in03.adhost.com (unknown [10.212.3.13]) by mail-defer01.adhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4877EEDC4B for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mksmith@adhost.com) Received: from ad-exh01.adhost.lan (unknown [216.211.143.69]) by mail-in03.adhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04905119C27 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mksmith@adhost.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 x-pgp-encoding-format: MIME x-pgp-mapi-encoding-version: 2.5.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="PGP_Universal_782B4AE0_94A28622_BA425182_06E4A2A6" x-pgp-encoding-version: 2.0.2 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:20:49 -0800 Message-ID: <17838240D9A5544AAA5FF95F8D520316034129E7@ad-exh01.adhost.lan> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: chflag sappend /var/log/messages - syslog-ng can't rotate logs Thread-Index: AchnH/sktQaaodQfROO88JWPfwql0w== From: "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" To: Cc: Subject: chflag sappend /var/log/messages - syslog-ng can't rotate logs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:38:12 -0000 --PGP_Universal_782B4AE0_94A28622_BA425182_06E4A2A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Hello All: I'm interested in making my messages file more likely to survive a hacking = attempt and I've set the sappend flag to that end. It would be nice if sys= log-ng could actually rotate the logfile since it gets quite large, but the= sappend flag seems to prohibit that from happening. Is there any way to m= aintain the flag and allow syslog-ng to rotate the files? Regards, Michael Smith -- Michael K. Smith - CISSP, GISP mksmith@adhost.com w: +1 (206) 404-9500 f: +1 (206) 404-9050 PGP: B49A DDF5 8611 27F3 08B9 84BB E61E 38C0 (Key ID: 0x9A96777D) --PGP_Universal_782B4AE0_94A28622_BA425182_06E4A2A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="PGP.sig" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="PGP.sig" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 9.7.1 (Build 1503) iQEVAwUBR6b1EfTXQhZ+XcVAAQgKIAf+NVXSKWTKxj+sU11U47gxbwXNhBUdqgOn wsc+uQ7t+7aFHM1RQzzXOGfhWanM4ZJe+P62Us2ihVK0N+J1ZrR/qw4QTTbnRRzg 7bzL+PyaoCM+3RznkytxwIDwg1Sa9GsPUnujNDrEaVGE4Etve9A21KAOZI0HmzSX CxGtpk3M3q7ib4bUeR1+xxc4TES2+9RG88uSzuAyiAaFJl+6ydsDIdhfebfWgVMW wgZsWwTVFqyYct4YfcRp30O1iQah6dlpnAOuLabCr5snXFXzAY391kAUcr+AM87q NxhqS4ylodEklvpKfwEEEQiA2irA7Ydqph0TvT/SvJkD9WDv/G2GSQ== =+6bc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PGP_Universal_782B4AE0_94A28622_BA425182_06E4A2A6--