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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:55:23 +0200
From:      Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>
To:        Jason Nugent <malhavoc@stomped.com>
Cc:        Jason Prosser <jprosser@teraglobal.com>, Ryan Masse <mail@max-info.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Stupid log file problems...
Message-ID:  <20010703075523.A3363@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107021722320.29423-100000@smithers.stomped.com>
References:  <B766386D.19A1%jprosser@teraglobal.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107021722320.29423-100000@smithers.stomped.com>

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 17:23:44 -0500, Jason Nugent wrote:
JN> 
JN> You might also want to try building logrotate from the ports collection
JN> (/usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate).  You can set it up to look after a large
JN> number of different log files.  I use it on a few machines and it works
JN> just great.
JN> 

The preferred way is to use the already builtin "newsyslog". Have a look
at /etc/newsyslog.conf where you can tune the settings for /etc/security.

Best regards

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