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From: Nomen Publicus on 18 Dec 2009 15:08
underh20 <underh20.scubadiving(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Our server is running Solaris 10 (03/08). By default, our /var/adm/
> messages
> file gets to keep 7 days of logs data and new file "messages.*" is
> created to keep the previous week of logs data All together there are
> a month of logs data kept, i.e., messages.0,1,2,3 in the server. See
> below.
>
> We'd need to have /var/adm/messages to keep 90 days of logs data and
> new file "messages.*" is created to keep 90 days of logs data each.
> There will be messages.0, 1, 2, 3 in the /var/adm directory and each
> will contain 90 days of logs data.
>
> Could anyone show me how to do this ? Thanks, Bill
>

The log files are managed by logadm. The man page explains.

>
>
> $ date
> Fri Dec 18 14:07:46 EST 2009
> $
> $ ls -lt /var/adm/messages*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10615 Dec 18 14:07 /var/adm/
> messages
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156320 Dec 18 02:27 /var/adm/
> messages.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156946 Dec 11 02:27 /var/adm/
> messages.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158008 Dec 4 02:29 /var/adm/
> messages.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156470 Nov 27 02:24 /var/adm/
> messages.3

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