log file rotation

Jason King jking at informs.com
Tue Jan 17 05:13:56 PST 2006


The only thing that was different was on my maillog line the end of the
line had only J instead of JC. I'll add that and see if that makes any
difference.

Thanks,
Jason

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:27 -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote:
> > 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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