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Date:      Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:48:12 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Jason King <jking@informs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: log file rotation
Message-ID:  <20060116214812.GB5533@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <1137444617.7255.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <1137444617.7255.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:50:16PM -0600, Jason King wrote:
> My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they
> use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped these files from
> rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what could have caused two
> different machines to have the same thing happen to them. The entry in
> my newsyslog.conf file is correct. There is no reason these files
> shouldn't be rotating daily like before. Anyone have any ideas on what
> to look for?

Try running newsyslog manually. If that works then its supposed to be
run every hour on the hour out of /etc/crontab.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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