Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:24:06 -0400 From: Edmond Baroud <SoHo@admin.fido.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie: rotating logs Message-ID: <20030407092406.523f020a.SoHo@admin.fido.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030404162814.M78648@enabled.com> References: <20030404162814.M78648@enabled.com>
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hey there, give logrotate a try, its more flexible than newsyslog. /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate Ed. On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:31:01 -0800 "admin2" <admin2@enabled.com> wrote: > > newbie admin: running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable > > I am having a bit of trouble finding this. Is there a FAQ or tutorial that > discusses the "standard convention" of rotating log files? I am seeing my > /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog files cycling nicely, but I would like > to know how to add other log files to this process. > > Thanks in advance. > > - Noah > > -- > Net Enabled (http://www.enabled.com) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Edmond Baroud Senior UNIX sysadmin mailto:SoHo@admin.fido.ca Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are."
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