newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf: newsyslog_flags=-a /usr/old-log/ I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being written into /var/log. No errors appear in /var/log/messages or in dmesg. Any clues? --Paul

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf: newsyslog_flags=-a /usr/old-log/ I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being written into /var/log. No

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 May 2010 08:01:26 -0700, Paul Hoffman phoff...@proper.com wrote: Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf: newsyslog_flags=-a /usr/old-log/ I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being written into

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 6:14 PM +0300 5/5/10, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: How did you start newsyslog? There's an rc.d script that should *read* the flags from rc.conf: /etc/rc.d/newsyslog start Yes, exactly. I did '/etc/rc.d/newsyslog stop', then '/etc/rc.d/newsyslog start'. At 11:14 AM -0400 5/5/10, Greg

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Hoffman wrote: At 6:14 PM +0300 5/5/10, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: How did you start newsyslog? There's an rc.d script that should *read* the flags from rc.conf: /etc/rc.d/newsyslog start Yes, exactly. I did '/etc/rc.d/newsyslog stop',