From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 20 0:36: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from volodya.prime.net.ua (volodya.prime.net.ua [195.64.229.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F33014A13 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:35:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Received: from prime.net.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volodya.prime.net.ua (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01665; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:33:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Message-ID: <37942661.5C4963E8@prime.net.ua> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:33:54 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" Organization: M-Info X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru, uk MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eileen Llona Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mgetty and log files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Use newsyslog utility. It has configuration file where U may define on which basis (size/time/etc) newsyslog will rotate any logfile. Eileen Llona wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just learning about mgetty. I've noticed on our system that it is > generating a huge log file, mgetty.cuaa0. I'd like to either archive or > delete the file, but don't know the proper way to reinitialize this > process or file. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Eileen Llona > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- WBW Andy V. Oleynik (When U work in virtual office prime.net.ua's U have good chance to obtain system administrator virtual money ö%-) +380442448363 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message