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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Syslogd - buggy? Date: 9 Jul 1996 07:01:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4rt04l$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DtzLHy.5wn@rci.ripco.com> <4rfdvk$jd6@twwells.com> <31DBF33D.DF@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: > If your scripts are correctly written for rotating logs, they will start > with the oldest log and do a "mv" to the next logfile in sequence, to the > point where the very oldest logfile gets erased. The sequence of mv > commands works backwards until the newest (current) logfile gets copied > to its first backup name. Check /etc/monthly and /etc/weekly for a > practical technique. Btw., since it's a silly task to do this, it's now automated by newsyslog(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)