Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:25:26 -0500 From: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: logs take up too much space Message-ID: <200209021425.26811.lists@rhavenn.net> In-Reply-To: <20020902143002.A11191@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20020901030500.A89971@skytrackercanada.com> <OE17pHDYLJ5RWcyBASm00013ad4@hotmail.com> <20020902143002.A11191@skytrackercanada.com>
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> > Rotating logs is also a solution. > > But most of the softwares rotate logs by default. > > Is it possible to change the default? Take a look at /etc/newsyslog.conf and the manpage for it, newsyslog. This should be able to let you change the rotation time, what size to rot= ate=20 and how many old ones to keep. You can of course add your own logs to rot= ate=20 if you need to. Henrik --=20 Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net Note: Beware of Dragons - Thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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