Re: Log rotation?

Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:

> Yeah, I use FreeBSD's wonderful newsyslog utility, and I do my logging like
> this:
>
> su -l pgsql -c '[ -d ${PGDATA} ] && exec /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl
> start -s -w -o "-i" -l /var/log/pgsql.log'
>
> And my /etc/newsyslog.conf entry:
>
> /var/log/pgsql.log      pgsql:pgsql     600  3     4096 *     Z

Sorry, this does not convey any information to me.  Does this newsyslog
thing do anything that's so smart that we should know about it?

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