Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:23:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Nugent <malhavoc@stomped.com> To: Jason Prosser <jprosser@teraglobal.com> Cc: Ryan Masse <mail@max-info.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stupid log file problems... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107021722320.29423-100000@smithers.stomped.com> In-Reply-To: <B766386D.19A1%jprosser@teraglobal.com>
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You might also want to try building logrotate from the ports collection (/usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate). You can set it up to look after a large number of different log files. I use it on a few machines and it works just great. HTH, Jason On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 at 5:22pm, Jason Prosser thought about > on 7/2/01 2:12 PM, Ryan Masse at mail@max-info.net wrote: > > > you may want to try; > > > > 1. delete, move, copy, gzip whatever /var/log/security > > 2. touch /var/log/security < creates a new empty file in that > > location > > 3. killall -HUP syslogd < restarts syslog > > 4. ipfw resetlog < resets and restarts the ipfw > > logging > > > > that should work.. > > > > Ryan > > Thank you... > > Worked like a charm. > > jp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ---------------------- Jason Nugent Aka MalHavoc Server Programmer and Administrator S T O M P E D . C O M For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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