From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 20:17:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA20690 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 20:17:04 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA20674 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 20:16:31 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA08457; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:11:40 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510090341.NAA08457@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: syslog question To: ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:11:39 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510090239.TAA19245@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Yen-Wei Liu" at Oct 9, 95 10:20:40 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 890 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Yen-Wei Liu stands accused of saying: > 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. System log rotation is performed by the /etc/daily script, run by cron. > Yen-Wei Liu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[