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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!oleane!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!burn.news.pipex.net!pipex!hose.news.pipex.net!pipex!warm.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!usenet From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newsyslog not rotating logs properly Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:50:17 GMT Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5o5mkp$bmt@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> References: <33a5d46b.196968677@news.crosslink.net> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43026 In article <33a5d46b.196968677@news.crosslink.net>, sgregory@crosslink.net (Scott Gregory) writes: > I am trying to get newsyslog to rotate my logs but it is not doing the > rotation as scheduled. I am running 2.2.2-RELEASE. Here is my > newsyslog.conf: > [.....] > > All the preset rotations work fine. All the ones that I added that > are supposed to be rotated every 24 hours (sshd_refused and > tcp_refused) seem to get rotated twice a day. I have removed all the > old files hoping that it was just getting caught on an old time stamp > but it didn't seem to matter. > > Any ideas? You may want to change your crontab entry to "newsyslog -v >myfile" to find out why it's necessary to rotate them. > Also, I looked at the man page for newsyslog and couldn't find > anything on whether you could set it up to rotate on every xK or x > hours, which ever was first. Before I try it has anyone already tried > and suceeded/failed? Setting a max size and a max time will rotate when either is hit. > Thanks in advance, > > Scott > -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !