At 09:06 PM 7/21/2002 -0600, Grant Cooper wrote: >I think I made a boo boo. I deleted all the files from var/log thinking I >would have clean logs. Well, I rebooted but some of the files never >reapeared. I made a back up just in case. > >Can I expect any problems in the future?
You should touch all of the files, else syslog won't log to them when it is restarted. >What is the best way to start off with new logs - I'm experimenting with >different things? Thus, trying to get more in touch with my new friend. Some >of the files reappeared. In general is this a good way of starting off from >fresh? newsyslog(8) is designed to rotate your system logs. Man it and see. -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message