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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:24:09 +0100 (CET)
From:      Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
To:        Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rotation of lastlog
Message-ID:  <20011102172208.O869-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011102110942.A41614@neutrino.bsdhome.com>

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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Brian Dean wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Perhaps this is a dumb question, but is there any reason _not_ to have
> /var/log/lastlog be rotated via newsyslog like most other log files?
>
> [...]
>
> If the above is not a concern or can't happen, or there are no other
> concerns, I'd like to add it.  Any objections?

From what I know, you can rotate it via newsyslog just fine andwithout any
problems. I don't know if somebody else probably has something noteworthy
to add, but I think generally you can just have it rotated.

Greetings
Nils

Nils Holland
Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org


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