From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 2 14:46:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1986D37B40C for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:46:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fA2MkLM75482 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:46:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADE5139F0; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:46:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nils Holland Cc: Brian Dean , Jim Pirzyk , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rotation of lastlog In-Reply-To: <20011102193106.N2484-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:46:21 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011102224621.ADE5139F0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nils Holland wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Brian Dean wrote: > > > This seems to be case. Thus, rotating it doesn't make a whole lot of > > sense, in general. Thanks for the clarification on how this file is > > used, I won't pursue adding it to newsyslog.conf. > > Hmm, well, then at least the answer I posted was not all that wrong: It > *could* be rotated, but it probably makes very little sense to do so ;-) Yes, rotating it is exactly the wrong thing to do - it would defeat the purpose of the file. :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message