Poking around in newsyslog(8) I noticed:
$ grep MIN_SIZE newsyslog.c
#define MIN_SIZE 256 /* Don't rotate if smaller (in bytes) */
&& ((ent->flags & CE_BINARY) || size >= MIN_SIZE)))) {
hence:
Index: newsyslog.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8,v
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -u -p -r1.45 newsyslog.8
--- newsyslog.8 28 Nov 2009 14:42:04 -0000 1.45
+++ newsyslog.8 17 May 2011 09:40:13 -0000
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ or set to
then the size of
the log file is not taken into account when determining when to trim the
log file.
-By default, files smaller than 512 bytes are not rotated unless the
+By default, files smaller than 256 bytes are not rotated unless the
.Sq B
(binary) flag is set or the
.Fl F
Index: newsyslog.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c,v
retrieving revision 1.88
diff -u -p -r1.88 newsyslog.c
--- newsyslog.c 24 Jul 2010 00:54:46 -0000 1.88
+++ newsyslog.c 17 May 2011 09:40:14 -0000
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ compress_log(struct conf_entry *ent)
}
}
-/* Return size in kilobytes of a file */
+/* Return size in bytes of a file */
off_t
sizefile(struct stat *sb)
{
Nathanael
