From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 13 18:32: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from terminus.rootprompt.net (mail.rootprompt.net [208.53.161.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05B5537BDC0 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:31:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@rootprompt.net) Received: (qmail 2608 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2000 01:31:49 -0000 Received: from recon.rootprompt.net (HELO jove) (192.168.1.2) by terminus.rootprompt.net with SMTP; 14 Aug 2000 01:31:49 -0000 From: "Robert Banniza" To: "Willem Brown" , Subject: RE: Rotating Logs... Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:33:07 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000814005301.D15267@snoopy.brwn.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > Best Regards Willem Brown -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message