Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?
Garance A Drosehn
gad at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 29 23:48:39 PDT 2009
At 8:08 AM +0200 3/30/09, Roger Olofsson wrote:
>Garance A Drosehn skrev:
>>At 10:48 PM +0200 3/29/09, Roger Olofsson wrote:
>>>
>>>I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and
>>>newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim.
>>>
>>>Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf:
>>>/var/log/security 644 7 5000 * JC
>>
>>
>>Are you sure that's the only line you have for /var/log/security in
>>your /etc/newsyslog.conf file? The distributed config file has:
>>
>>/var/log/security 600 10 100 * JC
>>
>>Obviously you have a different entry from that, but did you remove
>>the original entry?
>
>Hi Garance,
>
>You are correct! I missed the original line. Silly me :^D
Well, I should probably change newsyslog to "do something different"
(he says vaguely) when the same file is specified multiple times.
>Thank you very much!
You're welcome.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn at rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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