In message <200302110051.h1B0pY000612@parity-error.sm.sony.co.jp>, enami tsugut
omo writes:
>> Agreed.  The current default has always struck me as seriously weird.  
>> I run it daily.
>
>You mean you changed the period newsyslog is invoked by editing
>crontab?  An alternative way is to specify when it should be rotated
>directly in newsyslog.conf.  Our server at office is configured like
>this:
>
>/var/log/messages                       644  9    *    $W1D0 Z
>

Thanks.  I confess it had never occurred to me that there was yet 
another .conf file to tweak...

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