Log Rotation

Gerard Samuel fbsd-questions at trini0.org
Sun Dec 28 10:37:41 PST 2003


On Sunday 28 December 2003 01:24 pm, Scott W wrote:
> This is a simple solution, and has the potential to lose a few log
> entries due to the time from the completion of the original log copy
> until the original log file truncation is completed, but should be fine
> for home, non critical or low usage (meaning not logging 1000
> messages/minute) log files....there's probably a better way to do this,
> probably logging via a pipe, but I don't know the specifics offhand...
>

Seems ok to me, as its for a home setup.
But its always nice to know on what to do on a production system, when one 
gets thrown to the wolves.
Thanks for the tip...



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