how to re-read /etc/newsyslog.conf ?

[Bas Smeelen]

On 09/15/2010 11:11 AM, Antonio Kless wrote:
> 2010/9/15 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
>
>   
>> On 15/09/2010 09:02, Antonio Kless wrote:
>>     
>>> I have changed my /etc/newsyslog.conf by adding some new lines. How to
>>>       
>> make
>>     
>>> FreeBSD re-read it?
>>>
>>> # /etc/rc.d/newsyslog status
>>> newsyslog is not running.
>>>
>>> Is it OK?
>>>       
>> newsyslog is a cron job that gets run every hour.  There's nothing to
>> restart.  Changes to newsyslog.conf will be picked up the next time it
>> runs.
>>
>>        Cheers,
>>
>>        Matthew
>>
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>>     
> OK, now I see.
> Then for what /etc/rc.d/newsyslog are there?
>
> FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE.
>
>
>   
Hi

I guess this is for running newsyslog during boot to cleanup logfiles
(enable in rc.conf)
The same as ntpdate for instance




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