From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 14:27:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sgi04-e.std.COM (sgi04-e.std.com [199.172.62.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD2C37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:27:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by sgi04-e.std.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA1561076 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:27:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02981; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:27:49 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: log rotation question References: <3AA072C4.A4E7725D@sk.sympatico.ca> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 05 Mar 2001 17:27:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: topcat@sk.sympatico.ca's message of "3 Mar 2001 05:27:59 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 9 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG topcat@sk.sympatico.ca (TOPCAT CONSULTING) writes: > How does one *force* a rotation of /var/log/messages ? There are several options that you can give to newsyslog(8) that might help. There's one to force all logs in the configuration file to be trimmed, and there is another to use a non-standard configuration file. Between these, it should be easy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message