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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:33:07 -0500
From:      "Robert Banniza" <robert@rootprompt.net>
To:        "Willem Brown" <willem@brwn.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Rotating Logs...
Message-ID:  <NCBBJOFDILAPLLGMNBONKEFECKAA.robert@rootprompt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000814005301.D15267@snoopy.brwn.org>

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Guys,
	This is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you. Do I need to put an entry
in cron or is this in place by default. The reason I ask is b/c I realize
that several /var/log/* files have been rotated and gzip'ped. I placed my
new entries in /etc/syslog.conf and was wondering if I need to -HUP syslog
or how these new settings will take place. I realize 'man newsyslog' talks
about cron entries but I have none so I'm wondering how my logs were ever
rotated at all. Thanks for the help and I'll stop bugging now.

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Willem Brown
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 5:53 PM
To: Robert Banniza
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Rotating Logs...


Hi,

I would imagine that newsyslog is what you are looking for.

man newsyslog
/etc/newsyslog.conf


On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 05:51:46PM -0500, Robert Banniza wrote:
> Guys,
> 	Excuse my ignorance on this one but coming from a Linux OS has me a
little
> confused. Can anyone tell me if the logs on FreeBSD are rolled up and
> rotated on a constant basis? If so, how is this done? I installed
logrotate
> the other night from /usr/port/sysutils but I don't want it if it is going
> to interfere with a native log rotation scheme built upon FreeBSD. I'm
> running 4.1 Stable. I don't want /var filling up with old stagnant logs. I
> would appreciate any information on this.
>
> Thanks
> Robert
>
>
>
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Best Regards
Willem Brown
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