Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:59:05 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: want your comments Message-ID: <199511230059.QAA02026@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Nov 95 23:17:06 %2B0100." <9511222217.AA07517@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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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
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