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From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:36:50AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
>   BSD/OS long had a very nice "rotate" shell script for log files as
> part of their standard distro, with a hook to trigger a daemon restart
> or log reopens as needed, but unfortunately I don't know its license
> and copyright status.  It would be nice to add something like that into
> the FreeBSD base distribution - it's not like log rotation is a feature
> needed only on rare installations.

Which seems to be exactly what "newsyslog" is for...

Marc