newsyslog-local.conf

alexus alexus at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 17:29:30 UTC 2012


s# newsyslog -n -v
Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf
Found: <include> /etc/newsyslog-local.conf
Processing /etc/newsyslog-local.conf
/var/log/all.log <7J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/amd.log <7J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/auth.log <7J>: size (Kb): 4 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/console.log <5J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/cron <3J>: size (Kb): 44 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/daily.log <7J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/debug.log <7J>: size (Kb): 4 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/kerberos.log <7J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/lpd-errs <7J>: size (Kb): 4 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/maillog <7J>: --> will trim at Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 2012
/var/log/messages <5J>: size (Kb): 24 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/monthly.log <12J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/pflog <3J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/ppp.log <3J>: size (Kb): 4 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/security <10J>: size (Kb): 4 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/sendmail.st <10>:  age (hr): 439 [168] --> trimming log....
	rm -f /var/log/sendmail.st.10
	rm -f /var/log/sendmail.st.10.gz
	rm -f /var/log/sendmail.st.10.bz2
	rm -f /var/log/sendmail.st.10.xz
	rm -f /var/log/sendmail.st.9
	rm -f /var/log/sendmail.st.9.gz
	rm -f /var/log/sendmail.st.9.bz2
	rm -f /var/log/sendmail.st.9.xz
	mv /var/log/sendmail.st.3 /var/log/sendmail.st.4
	chmod 640 /var/log/sendmail.st.4
	mv /var/log/sendmail.st.2 /var/log/sendmail.st.3
	chmod 640 /var/log/sendmail.st.3
	mv /var/log/sendmail.st.1 /var/log/sendmail.st.2
	chmod 640 /var/log/sendmail.st.2
	mv /var/log/sendmail.st.0 /var/log/sendmail.st.1
	chmod 640 /var/log/sendmail.st.1
	ln /var/log/sendmail.st /var/log/sendmail.st.0
	chmod 640 /var/log/sendmail.st.0
Start new log...
	mktemp /var/log/sendmail.st.zXXXXXX
	chmod 640 /var/log/sendmail.st.zXXXXXX
	mv /var/log/sendmail.st.zXXXXXX /var/log/sendmail.st
newsyslog: pid file doesn't exist: /var/run/syslog.pid
/var/log/utx.log <3>: --> will trim at Thu Mar  1 05:00:00 2012
/var/log/weekly.log <5J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/xferlog <7J>: size (Kb): 4 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/squid/access.log <7J>: --> will trim at Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 2012
/var/log/squid/cache.log <7J>: --> will trim at Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 2012
Signal all daemon process(es)...
	sleep 10
s#

one thing that I noticed:
newsyslog: pid file doesn't exist: /var/run/syslog.pid

s# grep ^syslogd /etc/rc.conf
syslogd_enable="NO"
s#

does syslogd has be run for newsyslog to operate?



On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> On 20/02/2012 17:04, alexus wrote:
>> s# tail -1 /etc/newsyslog.conf
>> <include> /etc/newsyslog-local.conf
>> s# cat /etc/newsyslog-local.conf
>> /var/log/squid/access.log     squid:squid     640  7     *    @T00  J
>> /var/run/squid/squid.pid
>> /var/log/squid/cache.log      squid:squid     640  7     *    @T00  J
>> s# ls -la /var/log/squid/
>> total 95672
>> drwxr-x---  2 squid  squid       512 Jan 13 04:23 .
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 root   wheel      1024 Feb  6 00:00 ..
>> -rw-r-----  1 squid  squid  97804783 Feb 20 16:32 access.log
>> -rw-r-----  1 squid  squid    111481 Feb 20 16:29 cache.log
>> s#
>>
>> nothing gets rotated:( what am I doing wrong?
>>
>
> Hmmm... nothing leaps out at me as obviously wrong.
>
> What does running 'newsyslog -n -v' tell you?
>
>        Cheers,
>
>        Matthew
>
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