Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:52:02 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: periodic and 310.accounting Message-ID: <200011122152.eACLq2B04509@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 07:55:32 CST." <20001112075532.A7158@futuresouth.com>
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man periodic.conf.
Just set daily_accounting_enable=NO in /etc/periodic.conf.
Alternatively, you could send patches that add a new variable to
control the number of log files kept :-) I'll happily commit them.
> I was trying to look for some accounting logs today and noticed the
> periodic mechanism and specifically /etc/periodic/daily/310.accounting.
> It seems to me keeping logs for the past 3 days isn't really enough and
> the much smarter way is the method used by /etc/newsyslog.conf. Actually,
> I'd prefer to use newsyslog.conf to handle the accounting files as well.
>
> My question is, how do I accommodate this desire without having to modify
> /etc/daily/310.accounting each time we update the system. Seems like a
> default override would be useful. This might apply to other system log
> files as well. Please note that we are quite capable of changing the
> scripts to suit our needs I just don't want to get out of sync with the
> system.
>
> PS: how exactly does periodic get called? It's not in root's crontab.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
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