Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:22:26 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> To: Rudi Kramer - MWEB <rkramer@mweb.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: logrotate question Message-ID: <48AC36B2.8030909@lcwords.com> In-Reply-To: <39DC135F7F0571489196E0B6F5D58B4A03B46071@MWBEXCH.mweb.com> References: <48AC0A7D.80207@lcwords.com> <39DC135F7F0571489196E0B6F5D58B4A03B46071@MWBEXCH.mweb.com>
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Rudi Kramer - MWEB pisze: >> Zbigniew Szalbot >> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:14 PM >> To: User Questions >> Subject: logrotate question >> >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to use logrotate from ports and I am getting the following >> error. Can anyone offer any insight? > > Hi Zbigniew, > > I started investigating logrotate but someone put me on to newsyslog > instead. > Newsyslog is part of the FreeBSD and amazing simple to setup: > > 1) vi /etc/newsyslog.conf > > 2) Add the following line: > > /var/log/httpd/*.log www:www 644 60 * @T00 BJG > /var/run/httpd.pid > > I would recommend reading man pages newsyslog newsyslog.conf for more > info. > > Rudi Thanks for your post! Well, I really like newsyslog but I miss some features in it. 1/ rotating based on time and size 2/ saving files with timestapms in their names 3/ moving rotated messages to another folder This is why I am trying logrotate. Thanks! Zbigniew Szalbot
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