Re: Rotating log files

2001-11-07 Thread Nigel Pauli
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 15:19, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > On 2001.11.07 14:57 Nigel Pauli wrote: > > Does anyone have any recommendations for a utility that will rotate > > mail log files in much the same way as squid -k rotate does? > > Perhaps '/usr/bin/savelog' is what you need. Thanks v

Re: Rotating log files

2001-11-07 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
On 2001.11.07 14:57 Nigel Pauli wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations for a utility that will rotate > mail log files in much the same way as squid -k rotate does? > Perhaps '/usr/bin/savelog' is what you need.

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:17:06AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > The package "anacron" provides this functionality. > > Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes > (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: > Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes > (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed that it has > both cron and anacron running. Isn't this kind of pointless? Not at all. Anacron runs when you boot up to see if

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-20 Thread Thomas Adams
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:17:06AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The package "anacron" provides this functionality. Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed that it has both cron and anacron running. Isn't th

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 04:54:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If there had never been such a feature (and I was getting it > because of some misconfiguration:-)), I think it would be a > nice feature to add to /etc/init.d/cron. Have some files to > keep track of when /etc/cron.{daily,wee

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-20 Thread okushi
The problem wasn't what I thought it was..:-) Most of my PCs are turned on when necessary and turned off when not. The default Debian setup is to do run-parts /etc/cron.daily in the morning (6:42am), but my PCs are most likely to be turned off at that time. So no rotations are done. (I can cha

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-18 Thread King Lee
Oops please excuse previous message. I thought it was a personal email; I know author King On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I believe that in Debian 1.3 (or was it 1.2?), the cron > package came with crontabs that will rotate the log files in > /var/log. This does not appear to

RE: rotating log files

1998-12-15 Thread Jon Burchmore
> I believe that in Debian 1.3 (or was it 1.2?), the cron > package came with crontabs that will rotate the log files in > /var/log. This does not appear to be the case with Debian > 2.0. Has the crontabs become a separate package? Or do one > have to write his/her own? I have several 2.0 syste