Fwd: newsyslog.conf / rotating logs based on size AND time

[Don Read]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:25:39 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot said:

> Hello all,
> 
> Would anyone want to comment if it is possible to rotate logs with
> newsyslog based on size and time (using FBSD 7.0-Release)?
> 
> Many thanks!

Have you considered using a separate .conf file?
cat /etc/crontab
...
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary. 
0       *       *       *       *       root    newsyslog
# Rotate apache logs once a month
0	0	1	*	*	root	newsyslog -f /usr/local/etc/nsl.http.conf
#

Regards,
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