log rotation recommendations

[Roger Olofsson]

Hello Jeffrey,

I am not familiar with logrotate but my newsyslog.conf rotates whatever 
I want just fine. As an example I have this for a small almost unused 
apache:

/var/log/httpd-access.log               644  7     1000 24    B 
/var/run/httpd.pid 30
/var/log/httpd-error.log                644  7     1000 24    B 
/var/run/httpd.pid 30

You might want to adjust size settings etc and this can be found in the 
man page for newsyslog.conf.

Good luck!



Jeffrey Goldberg skrev:
> Hello,
> 
> Having recently moved from Linux (SuSE) to FreeBSD (6.2-p3) I'm 
> wondering what the recommended way of rotating logs (principally postfix 
> and apache).  I see that logrotate, with which I'm familiar, is in 
> ports.  I also see that there is a file /etc/newsyslog.conf, but it 
> looks like newsyslog(8) only knows about HUPping syslogd.
> 
> If there is no conventional "BSD way of doing this", I'll just install 
> logrotate and go with what I know, but I thought I would check here first.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -j
> 
> 
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