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From: Tony Jones <tony@thing.sunquest.com>
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Subject: Re: Do we *really* need logger(1)? 
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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