Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:42:12 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? Message-ID: <201101140742.p0E7gCvd033088@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <87zkr42h7f.fsf@oak.localnet>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 13 23:28:08 2011 > From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:21:40 -0800 > Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? > > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:11:03 -0600, Adam Vande More > > <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Amusing, but you're the one full of shit. There's more things to > >> automatic log file creation than are thought of in your imagination. > > > > Adam, > > > > I think Robert is right at least in regards of SOME programs that use > > syslogd for logging OR do the logging stuff on their own. > > I think that newsyslog will create the new log files if specified in the > /etc/newsyslog.conf file. That might be the confusion about some log > files being created automatically but others not. The newsyslog.conf(5) > manpage mentions a 'C' flag that can be specified. BINGO! Furthermore 'newsyslog' is *NOT* part of the Unix 'standard'. You _cannot_ count on it being present on every/all Unix system. Newsyslog is also -not- a 'logging service'. 'syslogd' is the logging service, and syslogd does -not- create any files mentioned in its .conf file. Newsyslog, itself, doesn't even consult the syslog.conf file. It operates entirely independantly o , and _tolally_ignorantly_ of, what syslogd does. _IF_ 'newsyslog' exists, and is configured to run at system start-up, =and= the logfile in question is also configured in the newsyslog.conf file, *AND* that logfile entry has the 'C' {create if missing} flag set, _THEN_AND_ONLY_THEN_ will the file get created when the system transitions into multi-user mode.
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