[Ukfreebsd] newsyslog

[Tutton, James]

Hi Ed,

Interesting development on this.  

As you thought and I had found via my own testing the -a flag in /etc/crontab works and moves the logs into a global folder.  

The issue is when the flag is present it no longer compresses the logs even although the settings are in the newsyslog.conf  

It leaves me with a great dilemma as my logs are now on a larger drive for achieving them long term but are 10x the size they need to be and hence still going to fill the disk. ARGH

James Tutton

-----Original Message-----
From: Edmund Craske [mailto:edmund at m00is.net] 
Sent: 12 May 2009 19:38
To: Tutton, James
Cc: Ukfreebsd at uk.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [Ukfreebsd] newsyslog

Edmund Craske wrote:
> Tutton, James wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Probably a very simple answer but can't find it for looking.
>>
>>  
>>
>> How can you get newsyslog.conf to move older files to a separate
>> directory.  The manual for newsyslog says
>>
>>  
>>
>>      *-a* _directory_
>>
>>              Specify a _directory_ into which archived log files will be writ-
>>
>>              ten.  If _directory_ is a relative path, it is appended to the par-
>>
>>              ent directory of each log and the archived log is stored in the
>>
>>              result.  If an absolute path is given, all archived logs are
>>
>>              stored in the given _directory_.  If _directory_ does not exist for a
>>
>>              specified log, it is ignored for that entry and the log is rotat-
>>
>>              ed as if the *-a* option was not specified.
>>
>>  
>>
>> But can't find an equivalent option to include in newsyslog.conf as want
>> to put different files in different directories.
>>
>>  
>>
>> **James Tutton**
> 
> Based upon the man page, I would suggest that that option works on all logs
> listed in newsyslog.conf so it would be all or nothing... You could always
> run newsyslog twice with 2 different configs to just move certain ones, but
> it's a bit of a kludge!
> 
> Ed

Oh, and if you were just wondering where to put the command flag, newsyslog
is run by cron, using /etc/crontab, so add it there!

Ed 
 
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