newbie: rotating logs

Rich Winkel rich at math.missouri.edu
Fri Apr 4 09:40:12 PST 2003


Look at /etc/newsyslog.conf

According to admin2:
> newbie admin:  running FreeBSD 4.7 Stable
> 
> I am having a bit of trouble finding this.  Is there a FAQ or tutorial that
> discusses the "standard convention" of rotating log files?  I am seeing my
> /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog files cycling nicely, but I would like
> to know how to add other log files to this process.


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