Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:25:26 -0500 From: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: logs take up too much space Message-ID: <200209021425.26811.lists@rhavenn.net> In-Reply-To: <20020902143002.A11191@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20020901030500.A89971@skytrackercanada.com> <OE17pHDYLJ5RWcyBASm00013ad4@hotmail.com> <20020902143002.A11191@skytrackercanada.com>
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> > Rotating logs is also a solution. > > But most of the softwares rotate logs by default. > > Is it possible to change the default? Take a look at /etc/newsyslog.conf and the manpage for it, newsyslog. This should be able to let you change the rotation time, what size to rotate and how many old ones to keep. You can of course add your own logs to rotate if you need to. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net Note: Beware of Dragons - Thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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