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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:25:26 -0500
From:      Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>
To:        David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: logs take up too much space
Message-ID:  <200209021425.26811.lists@rhavenn.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020902143002.A11191@skytrackercanada.com>
References:  <20020901030500.A89971@skytrackercanada.com> <OE17pHDYLJ5RWcyBASm00013ad4@hotmail.com> <20020902143002.A11191@skytrackercanada.com>

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> > Rotating logs is also a solution.
> > But most of the softwares rotate logs by default.
>
> Is it possible to change the default?

Take a look at  /etc/newsyslog.conf   and the manpage for it, newsyslog.

This should be able to let you change the rotation time, what size to rot=
ate=20
and how many old ones to keep. You can of course add your own logs to rot=
ate=20
if you need to.

Henrik
--=20

Henrik Hudson
lists@rhavenn.net

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