Summary: Changing number of log directories

From: Chris Adams <cmadams_at_hiwaay.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:39:55 -0600

Once upon a time, Chris Adams <cmadams_at_hiwaay.net> said:
> It seems that (at least under Digital Unix 4.0F) syslogd keeps 7
> directories in /var/adm/syslog.dated. Is there any way to change the
> number of directories? I'd like to keep more logs, and I guess I could
> write a cron job to copy them elsewhere, but I was wondering if there
> was any config change that would do this.

As many have (quickly!) pointed out, there is a job in root's crontab
that cleans these out. I don't know how I missed that.

Thanks.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams_at_hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
Received on Thu Dec 07 2000 - 01:41:11 NZDT

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