From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 2 15:23:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smithers.stomped.com (smithers.stomped.com [216.17.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32FD537B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 15:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malhavoc@stomped.com) Received: (qmail 29440 invoked by uid 1041); 2 Jul 2001 22:23:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jul 2001 22:23:44 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:23:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Nugent To: Jason Prosser Cc: Ryan Masse , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Stupid log file problems... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You might also want to try building logrotate from the ports collection (/usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate). You can set it up to look after a large number of different log files. I use it on a few machines and it works just great. HTH, Jason On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 at 5:22pm, Jason Prosser thought about > on 7/2/01 2:12 PM, Ryan Masse at mail@max-info.net wrote: > > > you may want to try; > > > > 1. delete, move, copy, gzip whatever /var/log/security > > 2. touch /var/log/security < creates a new empty file in that > > location > > 3. killall -HUP syslogd < restarts syslog > > 4. ipfw resetlog < resets and restarts the ipfw > > logging > > > > that should work.. > > > > Ryan > > Thank you... > > Worked like a charm. > > jp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ---------------------- Jason Nugent Aka MalHavoc Server Programmer and Administrator S T O M P E D . C O M For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message