Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 16:12:26 -0400 From: "Ryan Masse" <mail@max-info.net> To: "Jason Prosser" <jprosser@teraglobal.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stupid log file problems... Message-ID: <014201c10333$7c098a60$3200a8c0@Home> References: <B7662D2E.1992%jprosser@teraglobal.com>
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you may want to try; 1. delete, move, copy, gzip whatever /var/log/security 2. touch /var/log/security < creates a new empty file in that location 3. killall -HUP syslogd < restarts syslog 4. ipfw resetlog < resets and restarts the ipfw logging that should work.. Ryan > I am running IPFW with logging feature, on 4.2-Rel. > > This logs to the file /var/security. It was getting to big so I figured to > delete it and then make a new one and it should work... Wrong!. > > What do I need to do to A: get the logging feature to work again to any > file. B: What would I need to do to clean out the file periodically. (I am > looking at copying it to another location and then emptying the actual > file.) > > Thank you for your help ahead of time. > > JP > jprosser@teraglobal.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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