Donncha O Caoimh writes:
> This is slightly off-topic, but I'm sick of recompiling all the little
> utilities that come as standard with Linux on Solaris. I'm onto
> logrotate now, and I'm wondering if there's any similar program for Sun
> boxes. The source tar.gz of logrotate from redhat doesn't want to
> compile on the Sun box and it's annoying me :|
Solaris comes with /usr/lib/newsylog to rotate the syslogs
(/vasr/adm/messages, to be precise), which is run through root's
crontab. I usually copy this file, make the appropriate changes
(mail logs, apache logs etc), and add another crontab entry.
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