newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

[Greg Larkin]

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Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf:
>   newsyslog_flags="-a /usr/old-log/"
> I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being written into /var/log. No errors appear in /var/log/messages or in dmesg.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> --Paul Hoffman

Hi Paul,

newsyslog is invoked at boot time by the /etc/rc.d/newsyslog script to
create missing log files, but after that, it's invoked regularly by cron
to do the actual rotations.  Check the /etc/crontab file and add your
flags there, and you should be all set.

Hope that helps,
Greg
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