From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 18: 5:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71938183C7 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 18:05:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA22807; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:08:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199910200108.VAA22807@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: messages log In-Reply-To: <01BF1A64.2D1FE520.dl@tyfon.net> from Dan Larsson at "Oct 19, 1999 07:00:13 pm" To: dl@tyfon.net Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ([FreeBSD-Questions-List] (E-post)) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? It _is_ rotated like the other logs in the default setup. See, manpages for newsyslog(8) and the file /etc/newsyslog.conf. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message