From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 17: 3:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D25814FA2 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 17:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11232; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 17:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 17:01:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Strange (to me) log problem with ppp and qdial In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF7B9120@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu> 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 Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > I'm new to freebsd from Debian Linux. I sent this weekend close to 30 hours > working on get ppp to work. Finally on sunday and 8pm I got a ppp connection > with qdial. So I connected fine and was happy. Then I disconnected and tried > to connect again and qdial write a log file until var is full and then will > not connect. My log qdial log file had 7000 lines. This i don't understand. > I notice that the lines where also in my /var/log/messages. Is there anyway > to shut off logs or to automagically clear them. I found where to set /tmp > clear on boot and log after 21 days. Use /usr/bin/ppp. It has a built in terminal and a great log. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message