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Subject: Re: review: simple syslog.conf,newsyslog.conf patch with sample logging
From: Garrett Wollman (wollmankhavrinen.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 20:36:43 CST

<<On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 21:30:33 -0500 (EST), Robert Watson <robertcyrus.watson.org> said:

> Ok, have made that change in my local copy. Would it make sense to
> propagate this change to the maillog entry also:

> /var/log/maillog 664 7 * 24 Z

I have done so on my machines.

> I'm not sure I fully understand the newsyslog.conf T date/time syntax. Is
> there a way in which the following rotation schedule can be expressed?

> /var/log/sendmail.st 664 10 * 168 B

Unfortunately (or is that fortunately?) not. Fortunately, sendmail.st
is not exactly an important file. If I cared about it, I would make
it happen on the first of the month (which is what I do with my
monthly logs: `01T00').

-GAWollman 

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