Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:43:36 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Mark Stapper <stark@mapper.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daily security report oddity... Message-ID: <a9f4a3860909021043k487b3174vc1030978bc5065ef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090902170301.GE2855@dan.emsphone.com> References: <a9f4a3860909011556m4ceafe2drf93460842a64e99a@mail.gmail.com> <4A9E1D63.8030101@mapper.nl> <a9f4a3860909020954w710734a0id653adee080bc9d0@mail.gmail.com> <20090902170301.GE2855@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:03, Dan Nelson<dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 02), Kurt Buff said: <snip> >> Heh. Well, for me a very long time is more than a year, because >> security patches for the OS will at some point mandate a reboot - and >> usually in less than a year. >> >> I suppose there's a way to do auth log rotation automagically - would >> that be sysutils/logrotate? > > The system already rotates auth.log. =C2=A0Just edit /etc/newsyslog.conf = and add > a date check to the line for auth.log. =C2=A0The default is to roll it wh= en it > hits 100KB, but if you add something like $M1D0 to the "when" column it'l= l > rotate it monthly as well. > > -- > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Dan Nelson > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0dnelson@allantgroup.com That's exactly the clue I needed. Thanks, Dan. I'm looking at 'man newsyslog.conf' right now. Kurt
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