Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:49:03 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: newsyslog.conf and large numbers of Log Files Message-ID: <200901231849.n0NIn3W5097306@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Can newsyslog be made to handle large numbers of log files such as all the *.collect.log files produced in our mrtg directory? Each device produces a log of the polling session and those logs get huge very quickly. There are 498 such files and putting a separate line in /etc/newsyslog.conf for each file is an absurd idea as we are always adding and removing devices from our network. The other alternative is a shell script to run that would compress each file after renaming it, etc. That is not a problem, but newsyslog already does that at least on single files. I did try path/*.collect.log and nothing happened. Thanks for any ideas. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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