From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 06:26:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3872337B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 06:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.microcell.ca (gatekeeper.microcell.ca [205.151.8.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3935B43F75 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 06:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from SoHo@admin.fido.ca) Received: from mailserv.microcell.ca (mailserv.microcell.ca [10.2.0.87]) by gatekeeper.microcell.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8523D16C43 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailserv.microcell.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 485BB16BCA for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lenard.admin.fido.ca (lamus.fido.ca [10.0.1.45]) by mailserv.microcell.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4F516BC7 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from magni.microcell.ca (magni.microcell.ca [10.6.22.102]) by lenard.admin.fido.ca (SMTP_Gateway) with ESMTP id 25E3947D3C for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from magni.microcell.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by magni.microcell.ca (8.12.6/8.12.7) with SMTP id h37DO6fa096365 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:24:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from SoHo@admin.fido.ca) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:24:06 -0400 From: Edmond Baroud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030407092406.523f020a.SoHo@admin.fido.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030404162814.M78648@enabled.com> References: <20030404162814.M78648@enabled.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.64 2002/10/22 16:37:04 bre Exp $ Subject: Re: newbie: rotating logs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:26:16 -0000 hey there, give logrotate a try, its more flexible than newsyslog. /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate Ed. On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:31:01 -0800 "admin2" wrote: > > newbie admin: running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable > > I am having a bit of trouble finding this. Is there a FAQ or tutorial that > discusses the "standard convention" of rotating log files? I am seeing my > /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog files cycling nicely, but I would like > to know how to add other log files to this process. > > Thanks in advance. > > - Noah > > -- > Net Enabled (http://www.enabled.com) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Edmond Baroud Senior UNIX sysadmin mailto:SoHo@admin.fido.ca Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are."