log rotation

[Ruben de Groot]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:30:05PM +1030, Wayne Sierke typed:
> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:37, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> > Quick questions:
> > I've run across some mumblings in the ClamAV lists about Clamd not
> > logging anymore (or not scanning anymore?) when the maximum
> > logfile size is reached.  Is anyone in FreeBSD running this, and if so,
> > are you using Newsyslog to rotate the logs?  What are your settings
> > (how would I set it up)?
> > 
> Having recently installed clamav I was interested in getting log
> rotation enabled too (5.2-RELEASE). As an experiment I set the when
> entry in newsyslog.conf to 1 hour. After the log rotation I'm not
> getting any new entries written to the logfile. I believe I saw
> somewhere someone claiming that logrotate was working for them (but
> probably on Linux). Might have to try that instead.

Are you using syslogd for logging (LogSyslog in clamav.conf) ?
Log rotation through newsyslog is working fine here.