[ sorry about not quoting - braindead mail client ] Moving a filesystem on a live server is *never* a risk-free activity. If you intend to do this, use tar(1) or dump(8) instead of cp(1) - they will deal with special files and other unusual conditions.
But if you haven't done this often enough to be confident, I wouldn't start with a production server. Look at the -a option to newsyslog(8) - this allows you to put archived files in a different directory to the live ones. For example, I've modified /etc/crontab so that the newsyslog line reads 0 * * * * root newsyslog -a archives This means that all the archived logs will end up in /var/log/archives. If you create this directory as a symlink to a larger filesystem, then /var only has to hold the current logs. (Do this before changing the crontab, otherwise newsyslog will create the directory for you.) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
