On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote: > hi all > > the var partition on my apache box may be too small. > this is a problem because - > i originally had newsyslog set at > > /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 7 100 24 B /var/run/httpd.pid 30 fwiw I have the following entry in /etc/crontab:
0 * * * * root /home/munk/bin/sh/newsyslog.sh where that script reads: #!/bin/sh YEAR=`date "+%Y"` ROTATE_DIR=/home/munk/backup/log/$YEAR if [ ! -d $ROTATE_DIR ] then mkdir $ROTATE_DIR fi /usr/sbin/newsyslog -a $ROTATE_DIR /usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel $ROTATE_DIR \ && /bin/chmod -R 750 $ROTATE_DIR so the logfiles get rotated out into /home/munk/backup/log/$YEAR with whatever compression/triggers are setup in /etc/newsyslog.conf. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"