newbie: rotating logs

[Edmond Baroud]

hey there,

give logrotate a try, its more flexible than newsyslog.
/usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate

Ed.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:31:01 -0800
"admin2" <admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> - Noah
> 
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