Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 16:02:29 -0700 From: Tony Jones <tony@thing.sunquest.com> To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we *really* need logger(1)? Message-ID: <9509072302.AA13936@thing.sunquest.com>
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peter@osix.osix.oz.au writes >Hmmmm ... the best way of doing this is probably a rotary log file >rather than a flat log file. For example, the error log on an AIX >system uses at most 1Mb of storage (the error log entries are small). >Once the log file wraps, older entries are overwritten. A better I was surprised to see FreeBSD didn't have the 'syslog.dated' feature which rolls over the log files daily (or at boot time). It's a nice feature of OSF/1 - leaves me wondering if it's a SVR4ism. tony
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