[1321] in Release_Engineering
/etc/athena/newsyslog.conf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Wed Jul 12 04:43:04 1989
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 04:41:31 -0400
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: ops@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, sysdev@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The current /etc/athena/newsyslog.conf (VS6.3A) looks like this:
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/site/usr/adm/messages 644 5 30 * Z
/site/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog 644 5 50 * Z
/site/usr/adm/sulog 600 14 * 24
/site/usr/adm/wtmp 644 3 50 * B
/site/usr/adm/findlog 644 1 10 *
/site/usr/adm/lastlog 644 1 20 * B
/site/usr/adm/shutdownlog 644 1 10 *
/site/usr/adm/X0msgs 644 1 10 *
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I believe rather strongly that 14 copies of sulog (one per day) are
excessive. Perhaps we could change the prototype conf file to be a
little more reasonable? How about this for a proposed replacement:
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/site/usr/adm/messages 644 5 30 * Z
/site/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog 644 5 50 * Z
/site/usr/adm/sulog 600 1 10 *
/site/usr/adm/wtmp 644 3 50 * B
/site/usr/adm/findlog 644 1 10 *
/site/usr/adm/lastlog 644 1 20 * B
/site/usr/adm/shutdownlog 644 1 10 *
/site/usr/adm/X0msgs 644 1 10 *
/site/usr/adm/acct 664 1 200 * B
/site/rvd/rvdlog 644 7 * 24
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I included /site/usr/adm/acct for those machines with ACCOUNT=true,
and /site/rvd/rvdlog for rvd servers. (The two rvd servers I checked
had rvdlog files of 8200 and 15248 bytes.)
Can anyone think of other logfiles we might have growing out of
control, especially on servers?
