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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>,
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Subject: Re: Stupid log file problems...
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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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