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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: /etc/monthly, /etc/daily -- log rotation
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<<On Wed, 1 May 1996 10:48:35 -0400 (EDT), System Administrator <root@fledge.watson.org> said:

> rotate /var/log/maillog 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
> rotate /var/log/wtmp 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
> rotate /var/log/popper 4 3 2 1 0

They should have used `jot'.  :-)

> Etc.  It seems a lot more modular and configurable, etc.  It certainly 
> makes the script files seem more readable -- maybe we should consider 
> adopting a similar rotate call?

Well, we've got this `newsyslog' program, but none of my systems are
recent-enough installs to use it.  I don't know if it's capable of
handling non-syslog-generated files.

-GAWollman

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