The phrases 'log rotation' and 'rotate logs' could be added to the man
page for newsyslog to help with search and retrieval of the right page.
apropos would thus find the man page for newsyslog when the terms
'rotate', 'rotation', 'log rotation', 'rotate log', or 'rotate logs' are
used.
/Lars
Index: newsyslog.8
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -p -r1.44 newsyslog.8
--- newsyslog.8 31 May 2007 19:20:13 -0000 1.44
+++ newsyslog.8 23 Nov 2009 11:02:05 -0000
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a program that should be scheduled to run periodically by
-.Xr cron 8 .
-When it is executed it archives log files if necessary.
-If a log file is determined to require archiving,
+.Xr cron 8
+to rotate logs. When it is executed it archives log files if
+necessary. If a log file is determined to require archiving,
.Nm
rearranges the files so that
.Pa logfile
@@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ be rotated.
Note that each
.Ar log
specified must have an entry in
-.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf .
+.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf
+for log rotation to occur.
.Pp
A log can be archived because of two reasons:
The log file can have
