Yup. Try "man logrotate", it has many examples.
Jean-Michel Dault
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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Sridhar G wrote:
> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:39:59 -0700
> From: Sridhar G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] log file : /var/log/messages
>
> On the topic of the message log file, can I control the size of the message file to
>a certain size so that it dosen't bloat.
>
> Cheers
> Sridhar
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Frederic PLE
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 4:08 PM
> Subject: [expert] log file : /var/log/messages
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>
> Hi again.
> I would like to know why sometimes I have new files in /var/log called messages.1
>messages.2 etc ?
> Should I understand that regularly the system makes a backup called messages.x and
>reset the messages file ?
>
>
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