Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 12:10:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: root@fledge.watson.org (System Administrator) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/monthly, /etc/daily -- log rotation Message-ID: <199605011910.MAA09979@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960501104623.22525A-100000@fledge.watson.org> from "System Administrator" at May 1, 96 10:48:35 am
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> While perusing a BSDI system I used to administrate, I found the > following code in /etc/monthly and /etc/daily that seemed to make a lot > more sense that some of the stuff I saw in our equivilant files: [ ... ] > Calling is done as follows: > > 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 > > 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? Too bad you posted their code and we are all contaminated. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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