From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 13: 5:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A8617B88 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA09755; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:04:28 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:04:28 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Dan Larsson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: messages log In-Reply-To: <01BF1A64.2D1FE520.dl@tyfon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Dan Larsson wrote: > I want the messages log (/var/log/messages) to rotate just as the other logs > Do I need to create a crontab for this, or how should I configure the system? The 3.x series uses newsyslog(8) for this. Check out /etc/newsyslog.conf. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!" - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message