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To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: want your comments 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Nov 95 23:17:06 +0100."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:59:05 -0800
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>hello
>
>i just want to ask around for pros's and con's of the following things
>i plan to commit:
>
>* /usr/bin/newsyslog - this automates the "rotation" of the log files
>  and can replace our "rotation by hand" in the
>  /etc/[daily,weekly,monthly] scripts - it is invoked via cron each our
>  (the entry is there - but we don't have a newsyslog) and can be
>  configured via a /etc/newsyslog.conf file (where you may adjust how
>  often and/or after which size the files should be rotated, how many
>  old versions should be keeped and if they should be compressed using gzip)
>  this would include the adaption of the /etc/[daily, ...] scripts
>  (taken from NetBSD)

   Since this will only be run by the superuser, it should go in /usr/sbin.

-DG