Where Are All These Files Located?

[Matthew Seaman]

Ted Johnson wrote:
> Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote: 
> Ted Johnson writes:
> 
>>  "BSD and FreeBSD: You should go to the /etc directory and edit 
>>  the /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly scripts and change the 
>>  'rotate()' script function to change the log permissions on
>>  rotation."
> 
>  "find -x / -name daily" should give you the answer.
> 
> Yeah, I tried that. It didn't work. Files must be referencing something else, by different name. Any other ideas?

They don't exist by default any more, but if you *create*
/etc/{daily,weekly,monthly}.local, then they will get run as part of the
appropriate periodic tasks.  See:

     /etc/periodic/daily/999.local
     /etc/periodic/weekly/999.local 
     /etc/periodic/monthly/999.local

     grep _local /etc/defaults/periodic.conf

However, why wouldn't you just setup /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate your
logfiles?  Much simpler and cleaner.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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