From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 23 01:39:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA27777 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 01:39:49 -0800 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA27769 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 01:39:19 -0800 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA15851; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 10:29:28 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199511230929.KAA15851@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: want your comments To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 10:29:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: graichen@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511230059.QAA02026@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 22, 95 04:58:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1090 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >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 One comment on old log files. Usually people has /var/log in the root partition. There are good reasons for this (so that boot messages and the like can be written as soon as root is mounted), but the root partition tends to fill up, and old log files take a lot of space, especially on busy systems. However, they do not need to reside in the root partition. Thus, the configuration file should also provide a way to specify the place where the old logs should go. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================