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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Generic root crontab?
Date: 17 Jul 1996 13:39:07 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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flash@EECS.Lehigh.EDU (Stephen Corbesero) wrote:
> Does anyone have (or know of) a nice, generic root crontab for
> FreeBSD? I just noticed there was nothing to do regular system
> maintenance like moving/compressing log files.
Log file rotation is done in /etc/{dai,week,month}ly. It has
meanwhile (in the 2.2 development sources) been replaced by
newsyslog(8), which also supports log file compression.
All this is done from inside the `generic' crontab, /etc/crontab.
Note that the format of this file is slightly different from the
individual user's crontabs.
--
cheers, J"org
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