Thanks! I did as you've suggested.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:12:57 -0800 (PST)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Radhika Sambamurti wrote:
> 
> > My /var/mail/maillog and messages files are rather full. What is the
> > best way to manage these logs?
> 
> Make sure cron is running. Look at root's default crontab.
> 
> It should run newsyslog every hour.
> 
> Look at your /etc/newsyslog.conf and make sure it is how you want it.
> 
> > Is this a newsyslog question? my rc.conf says newsyslog=no.
> 
> That is okay. That is used to "trim log files" at boot time.
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://www.reedmedia.net/
>