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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:21:40 -0800
From:      Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
Message-ID:  <87zkr42h7f.fsf@oak.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <20110114040308.056850ce.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message	of "Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:03:08 %2B0100")
References:  <AANLkTi=49Zopo0xCO=nOrf05DqNSV1k0P%2B%2Bf-G0XPZcA@mail.gmail.com> <201101140159.p0E1xqUi029905@mail.r-bonomi.com> <AANLkTi=MFSvXZ29KmeBbKvg7_cEZc3wuE737Fq69efKe@mail.gmail.com> <20110114040308.056850ce.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:11:03 -0600, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Amusing, but you're the one full of shit.  There's more things to automatic
>> log file creation than are thought of in your imagination.
>
> Adam,
>
> I think Robert is right at least in regards of SOME
> programs that use syslogd for logging OR do the
> logging stuff on their own.

I think that newsyslog will create the new log files if specified in the
/etc/newsyslog.conf file.  That might be the confusion about some log
files being created automatically but others not.  The newsyslog.conf(5)
manpage mentions a 'C' flag that can be specified.

-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org




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