On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Radhika Sambamurti wrote:

> My /var/mail/maillog and messages files are rather full. What is the
> best way to manage these logs?

Make sure cron is running. Look at root's default crontab.

It should run newsyslog every hour.

Look at your /etc/newsyslog.conf and make sure it is how you want it.

> Is this a newsyslog question? my rc.conf says newsyslog=no.

That is okay. That is used to "trim log files" at boot time.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/