From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 20: 8:24 2002 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 E1BEA37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:08:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3EB43E65 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2A7243C2; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:08:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from thor.nospam.schulte.org (thor.schulte.org [209.134.156.219]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20948243BE; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:08:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20020721220607.02a465f0@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:08:02 -0500 To: "Grant Cooper" From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: log files Cc: In-Reply-To: <009901c2312c$b5c6ec70$2afececd@TCOOPER> References: <200207212214.g6LMEQxc000099@labs.unixhideout.com> <000001c23109$09c55830$0a01a8c0@athlon> <20020722024119.GA2730@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre6 on clink.schulte.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:06 PM 7/21/2002 -0600, Grant Cooper wrote: >I think I made a boo boo. I deleted all the files from var/log thinking I >would have clean logs. Well, I rebooted but some of the files never >reapeared. I made a back up just in case. > >Can I expect any problems in the future? You should touch all of the files, else syslog won't log to them when it is restarted. >What is the best way to start off with new logs - I'm experimenting with >different things? Thus, trying to get more in touch with my new friend. Some >of the files reappeared. In general is this a good way of starting off from >fresh? newsyslog(8) is designed to rotate your system logs. Man it and see. -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message