From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 0:22:49 2002 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 2F25037B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 00:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cerebellum.za.net (cerebellum.za.net [196.34.172.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD3843E6A for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 00:22:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@cerebellum.za.net) Received: from [196.30.239.55] (helo=bert) by cerebellum.za.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17lP4E-0000dg-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 07:22:43 +0000 From: "Ian Barnes" To: Subject: RE: logs take up too much space Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:20:42 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20020901030500.A89971@skytrackercanada.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David > Banning Sent: 01 September 2002 09:05 > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: logs take up too much space > > > My logs grow so big that my /var section of the drive gets full. > > Is there a way to set the log so that it trims the length of the > log? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Why dont you just rotate logs daily ? Ian P.S. #man newsyslog - - ------------------------- Email: ian@cerebellum.za.net PGP Public Key: http://www.cerebellum.za.net/pubring.pkr - - ------------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQEVAwUBPXG/jfmCFTPBIuqvAQFrqQf/UIl/4P3sC0D+fNmNPqL7coUyTK67BIdz E8rnNJS1TVGyPyr2WIDIo8H3AFtV8tGZUHyKwlMpJKi7NrEt0+TxtR1RRpddBYgF EEnKmzXCLlUCfIYgditnXBbqb/dfgRECfSqtefKOtUc9lW4p1o+iPfpXsyRwDNJX 5tDuwlrdlKoeGoKJBVRKwLC8P4vxL91RV5KjfaayGQUJoaW2ZAgSpAHp1CCyajgy CJagKZBRnGMRRNTgjBmIaiC2wVUBFgq0rsgwd+4N/8L70se2KttIGJRlTPRb/3YP HfCRJmbGcBVXTz5wATFTxyvTYoSZ70rC0DckQtqE4K/wy9tSbhCC3A== =gFa1 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQEVAwUBPXG/w/mCFTPBIuqvAQHYNgf7B0yZV3q6ipcsYQs+ghZJDtcdWROLWQgS llRUtsNCUJRKE83z3huWImMwoRkJY88XNbfcvAPn9ijwqHFjlWlfZ0a+WE2Erqes f2AlIG+7vytUYGVZt6uUuy1WDudyU5VnFUQuoLiOGL50g51bik208Hk10ieqlU// ugZeKccjb+V6qaCViQBjkaIbqR00uPwn5A8reBwvuYo/Qx+YlrycUEucxGjx1PMp /+hsxblaCm8VDJh+ZIcnsZ3fpvF6h6lIJ6KGTd4PYldjittPAEyziEN1qZt5jLhO LaS+At0duoiWFxaPC3SyoyQo+K+or/3sDxHCn1iyt9bskSYwcmKBYA== =r/cP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message