On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:38:21PM -0500, Dave Kitabjian wrote:
> *** newsyslog ***
>
> Maybe I'm lucky, or something. We use FreeBSD almost exclusively, and it
> includes a fantatic tool called "newsyslog". I would think some of you
> would have it too, since it's been around since 1987 and came out of MIT.
This is very interesting ... except for my personal workstation (a PC running
Slackware Linux 7) all my systems are Sun boxes running Solaris 2.6/7. Strange
that a tool like that would not be found in Solaris given it's roots. Solaris
has a newsyslog (/usr/lib/newsyslog) but it would seem to be relatively
impotent compared to the tool you are talking about. It has no config file,
rather it is hard coded to roll /var/adm/messages and /var/log/syslog only. Of
course it can be modified pretty easily.
--
Mark Drummond
Department of Computing Services
UNIX System Administrator
