From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 05:21:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0701065670 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:21:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from redcondor1.peak.org (redcondor1.peak.org [69.59.192.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532688FC0A for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from peak-mail-gateway.peak.org ([69.59.192.41]) by redcondor1.peak.org ({e03e86cd-14ae-47ce-9578-3c080ce9c462}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20110114052141829 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:21:41 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from oak.localnet (207.55.91.159.peak.org [207.55.91.159] (may be forged)) by peak-mail-gateway.peak.org (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id p0E5Le0p069239 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:21:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oak.localnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61737C70D for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from carlj@localhost) by oak.localnet (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p0E5LeSF068062; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:21:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) X-Authentication-Warning: oak.localnet: carlj set sender to carlj@peak.org using -f From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201101140159.p0E1xqUi029905@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20110114040308.056850ce.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:21:40 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20110114040308.056850ce.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:03:08 +0100") Message-ID: <87zkr42h7f.fsf@oak.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:21:42 -0000 Polytropon writes: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:11:03 -0600, Adam Vande More 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