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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!mpifr-bonn.mpg.de!fs1.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de!souva From: souva@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) Subject: Re: Chklogs v1.9 System Admin In-Reply-To: grimaldo@IAEhv.nl's message of 18 Mar 1997 22:57:31 GMT Message-ID: <SOUVA.97Mar19194602@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de> Sender: news@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de Nntp-Posting-Host: aibn55 Reply-To: isouvatzis@astro.uni-bonn.de Organization: Radioastronomisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn, Bonn, FRG References: <5gn6kr$dkt@news.IAEhv.nl> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:46:02 GMT Lines: 23 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5656 In article <5gn6kr$dkt@news.IAEhv.nl> grimaldo@IAEhv.nl (Gandalf D'Grey) writes: I have recently uploaded the latest release of Chklogs (v1.9) Description: A Perl script (can be cron'ed) for maintenance of system logs. It checks your list of system logs against maximum allowed sizes specified by you. If a log has grown past its limit it can truncate them to zero size , archive them or So, other than the execute program bit: how does this differ from BSD's newsyslog facility, which allows to specify, per log file, maximum size, maximum age, maximum number of kept logs, and whether back ones are compressed? -is -- Ignatios Souvatzis (also ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de) Cute quote: "Bill Gates should limit his salary to the number of bytes addressable by the latest version of MS-DOS, and be taxed based on the number of bytes of RAM needed by the latest version of MS-Windows" (PI92AE@pt.hk-r.se)