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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2000 12:17:31 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var/log/messages > gzip?
Message-ID:  <14770.34731.663359.436578@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <37138825@toto.iv>

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William Melanson writes:
> Where might I find the script that gzip's sendmail's maillog on a daily
> basis? I'd like to tinker around with it whereas it can perform the same
> services to /var/log/messages. Apparently /etc/periodic wants
> /var/log/messages to be gzip as well. These error messages: 
> "/var/log/messages.0*.gz: No such file or directory" are weighing heavily
> upon my patience :)

It's not a script. Try checking out the newsyslog man page.

	<mike



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