log file rotation

Dan O'Connor dan at ferrarishields.com
Mon Jan 16 13:26:40 PST 2006


> My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they
> use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped these files from
> rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what could have caused two
> different machines to have the same thing happen to them. The entry in
> my newsyslog.conf file is correct. There is no reason these files
> shouldn't be rotating daily like before. Anyone have any ideas on what
> to look for?

Only thing I can think of is to check /etc/newsyslog.conf and make sure 
the lines

        /var/log/daily.log                      640  7     *    @T00  JN
        /var/log/maillog                        640  7     *    @T00  JC

are still there.

~Dan




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