From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 19:40:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA19263 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 19:40:11 -0700 Received: from lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.7.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA19245 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 19:39:35 -0700 Message-Id: <199510090239.TAA19245@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: by lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA15130; Mon, 9 Oct 95 10:20:41 +0800 From: Yen-Wei Liu Subject: syslog question To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 Oct 95 10:20:40 EAT Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I got a question here about syslogd : the syslogd seems to keep a track of its output files, such as maillog, maillog.0, etc.. I just don't understand how it decides when it's necessary to move up to a new file name (i.e. move maillog to maillog.0 and create a new maillog). Does anybody know the rules ? It's important for us to have the system logs as a whole part. -- Yen-Wei Liu Internet e-mail address:ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ywliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw FAX: +886-2-783-6444