Keeping maillogs

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Oct 10 13:39:10 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Oct 10), Toll, Eric said:
> I love FreeBSD.  One such thing I am not sure on how to do is to keep
> the /var/log/maillog files for more than 7 days. I'd like to keep 60
> days.  Also I have enough space so I don't need the system to gunzip
> them.

Edit /etc/newsyslog.conf, find the maillog line, raise the 'count'
value, and remove the Z (or J) flag.  See the newsyslog manpage for
more info.
  
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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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