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How can I extend the time when system.log gets turned over?
Right now my system.log gets recreated every 24 hours or so with a message like:
Jan 4 00:30:01 Mac newsyslog[63416]: logfile turned over
Can I change a setting such that it will get rotated every ...
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Is it 'ok' to delete zsh's *.asl logs?
I do a lot of work in the terminal. Sometimes, after a week or two, start up gets a bit slow (I'm talking about an extra second or two, not the end of the world but it's slower).
I did some Googling ...
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logger vs syslog -s
What exactly is the difference between using logger and syslog -s? According to its manpage, logger provides interface to the system log module, but I can't really see the point given that syslog(1) ...
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How to include the failing username on saslauthd failure in a log file in Lion?
How can the verbosity of logging be increased for SASL authentication failures?
To be more precise, to include the failing user name in a log file on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Server?
Linux hosts have ...
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Simple File Transfer Logs
This may be a general Unix question rather than a OS X question.
I want to log general file transfers on OS X, whether it be from and to the same system or to another system, but to keep it simple ...