Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:33:54 -0500 From: Don Read <donread@sbcglobal.net> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: newsyslog.conf / rotating logs based on size AND time Message-ID: <20080922153354.17308c21@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <8f0962110046cceccab7b56c1a8dd37d@relay.lc-words.com> References: <8f0962110046cceccab7b56c1a8dd37d@relay.lc-words.com>
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On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:25:39 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot said:
> Hello all,
>
> Would anyone want to comment if it is possible to rotate logs with
> newsyslog based on size and time (using FBSD 7.0-Release)?
>
> Many thanks!
Have you considered using a separate .conf file?
cat /etc/crontab
...
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
0 * * * * root newsyslog
# Rotate apache logs once a month
0 0 1 * * root newsyslog -f /usr/local/etc/nsl.http.conf
#
Regards,
--
Don Read donread@sbcglobal.net
It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to
steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
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