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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: want your comments
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In-Reply-To: <199511230059.QAA02026@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 22, 95 04:59:05 pm
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> 
> >hello
> >
> >i just want to ask around for pros's and con's of the following things
> >i plan to commit:
> >
> >* /usr/bin/newsyslog - this automates the "rotation" of the log files
> >  and can replace our "rotation by hand" in the
> >  /etc/[daily,weekly,monthly] scripts - it is invoked via cron each our
> >  (the entry is there - but we don't have a newsyslog) and can be
> >  configured via a /etc/newsyslog.conf file (where you may adjust how
> >  often and/or after which size the files should be rotated, how many
> >  old versions should be keeped and if they should be compressed using gzip)
> >  this would include the adaption of the /etc/[daily, ...] scripts
> >  (taken from NetBSD)
> 
>    Since this will only be run by the superuser, it should go in /usr/sbin.
> 
ok - i agree - it should go to /usr/sbin

t
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