Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:01:17 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where Are All These Files Located? Message-ID: <D665D10421D0B167969C3A18@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <20060904164225.89454.qmail@web58410.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <20060904164225.89454.qmail@web58410.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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--On September 4, 2006 9:42:25 AM -0700 Ted Johnson <whatawonderfulworldweliveintoo@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi; > In installing logcheck, I read the following information: > > BSD and FreeBSD: You should go to the /etc directory and edit > the /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly scripts and change the > 'rotate()' script function to change the log permissions on rotation. > Simply change the line: > /etc/periodic/daily, /etc/periodic/weekly, /etc/periodic/monthly. See man (8) periodic. Also see man (5) pqqeriodic.conf. However, BSD doesn't need to use logcheck and rotate (which are linux creations), because it rotates logfiles using syslogd and newsyslog.conf. See man (8) syslogd, man (8) newsyslog and man (5) newsyslog.conf. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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