From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 14:36:01 2008 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 CB9161065678 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:36:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Received: from mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CF48FC22 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:36:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Received: from aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20080901143600.FUSX21103.mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:36:00 +0100 Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org ([82.21.101.171]) by aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20080901143600.FTAM18637.aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@catflap.slightlystrange.org> for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:36:00 +0100 Received: by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix, from userid 106) id 027EB6470; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:35:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from torus.slightlystrange.org (torus.slightlystrange.org [10.1.3.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 140FD619C for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:35:56 +0100 (BST) Received: (from danielby@localhost) by torus.slightlystrange.org (8.14.2/8.13.4/Submit) id m81EZtC3043552 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:35:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:35:55 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: User Questions Message-ID: <20080901143555.GA42584@torus.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: User Questions References: <48BBCCBE.1060409@lcwords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48BBCCBE.1060409@lcwords.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 Subject: Re: newsyslog X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:36:01 -0000 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:06:38PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Just one quick question: do changes to /etc/newsyslog.conf require=20 > /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd? No, newsyslog.conf is the config file for the newsyslog script, which is called from cron every hour (IIRC). newsyslog handles sending signals to syslogd and others depending on the values in the last three fields of the newsyslog.conf file. >=20 > I commented out one entry for log rotation, however at midnight the log= =20 > was still rotated by newsyslog as if it had not been commented out. Man= =20 > newsyslog.conf seems to suggest this is not necessary... Odd. I've never encountered this problem. Are you sure you commented out the right file? ;-) Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAki7/csACgkQixf5fBYiFmqakgCfQZfNJ4P3HikU1vyBs9pR2j3c y/oAn1nvesJAT+BYR3gTTj1i/50EtRid =MA9U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--