newsyslog restarts syslogd after backing up the old log, so that syslog
writes to the new, empty log.  

Sean Cavanaugh
seanc@cginfo.sk.ca
http://www.cginfo.sk.ca

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 nbsd@righi.dhs.org wrote:

> 
> I often have in the /var/log/messages a warning report of syslogd being
> restarted.
> 
> Actually anyone knows why it resterts or which script does it ?
> I looked at crontab but I did not see anything about ti resterting.
> Is it perhaps the newsyslog script which restarts it after cycling the log
> files ??
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
>