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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