Thanks Joel.  I've gone this route as well, I added some find commands to 
cron which compress files older than one day, and delete them after a couple 
of weeks.

Logrotate does all this with a conf file, very easy to use.  I was hoping 
someone had it compiled to run on NetBSD.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel CARNAT" <joel@carnat.net>
To: "dennis usle" <dusle@comcast.net>
Cc: <pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: logrotate / NetBSD 4


> >
>> Is it possible to install logrotate on NetBSD 4.0?  Anyone have
>> instructions to compile?    Im looking to compress/archive my logs from
>> syslogng.  Any information on this would be very much appreciated.
>>
>
> I'm using syslog-ng to rotate and store my logs.
>
> In the server's syslog-ng.conf, I have destination rules like:
> destination sshd { file("/home/log/$HOST/sshd/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY.log"); };
>
> And a shell script runs every night to compress log files from "yesterday
> and earlier".
>
> In the clients, either I send all logs to this server, or use
> /usr/bin/newsyslog for the few logs that I keep local too.
>