Re: logrotate / NetBSD 4

["Joel CARNAT" <joel%carnat.net@localhost>]

>  Im quite new to netbsd and pkgsrc, not sure how to go about pkgsrc-wip.

here's the beast http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/
it is some kind of "addon" to pkgsrc.

> As for newsyslog, some others have also mentioned it. Do you have
> experience
> with newsyslog?  What is your reasoning for preference?
>

this is the default in netbsd for dealing with system log.
check the root crontab and "newsyslog (8) - maintain system log files to
manageable sizes"

Regards,
    Jo

> Thanks,
>
> Dennis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
> To: "dennis usle" <dusle%comcast.net@localhost>
> Cc: <pkgsrc-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 3:25 PM
> Subject: Re: logrotate / NetBSD 4
>
>
>> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, dennis usle wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to install logrotate on NetBSD 4.0?  Anyone have
>>> instructions to compile?  Im looking to compress/archive my logs from
>>> syslogng.  Any information on this would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> logrotate is in pkgsrc-wip. It includes patches for NetBSD.
>>
>>  Jeremy C. Reed
>>
>> p.s. What about newsyslog?
>
>