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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--==========199D0C4C2EC2F2207E23========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On September 4, 2006 9:42:25 AM -0700 Ted Johnson=20 <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=20 creations), because it rotates logfiles using syslogd and newsyslog.conf.=20 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/ --==========199D0C4C2EC2F2207E23==========--
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