From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 17:01:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8490516A4E0 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:01:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8E543D49 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:01:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (adsl-65-71-92-172.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [65.71.92.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF441114314 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:56:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:01:17 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060904164225.89454.qmail@web58410.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <20060904164225.89454.qmail@web58410.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.5 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========199D0C4C2EC2F2207E23==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Where Are All These Files Located? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:01:22 -0000 --==========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 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==========--