greg@eemips.tamu.edu (Greg Economides) (04/10/90)
In the SunOS manual, there is a reference made to making an entry in a crontab for updating /var/adm/messages each week. In other words: messages.3 --> messages.4 messages.2 --> messages.3 messages.1 --> messages.2 messages --> messages.1 a new messages file is created. I wrote a script which does this and put an entry in the appropriate crontab so that the script is executed each week. I have a feeling that this is not what the reference in the manual was talking about. It seemed to suggest that there exists a program to do this which should be executed via crontab. I am running SunOS 4.0.2 on a 386i. It seems that on Sun 3's and 4's this updating is done by default, but not so with this set-up. Is my script unnecessary? greg economides System Administrator: zadok.tamu.edu