Re: logging Q's for stretch

2019-06-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 June 2019 08:27:28 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:25:07PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So syslog is growing rapidly and gets rotated in just a day or so, > > and that means a "tail -fn xxx" watching it is stuck looking at the > > old file, > > That's what tai

Re: logging Q's for stretch

2019-06-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:25:07PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > So syslog is growing rapidly and gets rotated in just a day or so, and > that means a "tail -fn xxx" watching it is stuck looking at the old > file, That's what tail -F (capital F) is for.

Re: logging Q's for stretch

2019-06-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 22:25:07 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > Since upgrading to stretch, my syslog is being spammed by freshclam, > clamav, and spamd. These has their own logs in wheezy, so syslog was how > I kept track of the hardware. > > So syslog is growing rapidly and gets rotated in ju

logging Q's for stretch

2019-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Since upgrading to stretch, my syslog is being spammed by freshclam, clamav, and spamd. These has their own logs in wheezy, so syslog was how I kept track of the hardware. So syslog is growing rapidly and gets rotated in just a day or so, and that means a "tail -fn xxx" watching