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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Local additions to periodic actions? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:14:54 EST."
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:14:54 EST, Stan Brown wrote:

>       Since /var/log/messages is rotated (daily ?), I need to
>       synchronize my cjecks with this, or I might miss some logs. I
>       looke around in /etc/periodic, and I am a bit puzzled. First I
>       did not see the specifc script that dealt with the rotating of
>       these logs. Am I overlooking it?

Yes. :-)

Most of the logfiles in /var/log are rotated by the newsyslog(8)
command, which is run periodically out of cron(8).

> 	Second, how can I add something lcal here, in a fashinon that will not
> 	be overwritten by a "make  world"?

Since ``make world'' doesn't touch your /etc directory, anything you do
in there should survive.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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