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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 month? Or every week?
Having a much longer time would allow for better visibility of the progression of some errors.
Have you tried selecting the folder in the folder list and then using the menu entry "Use This Mailbox For -> Sent" in the Mailbox menu?
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That should do exactly what you want.
Could you use an AppleScript like this?
do shell script "tar --disable-copyfile -cf ${TMPDIR}logs.tar /var/log/{system,install}.log*" with administrator privileges
It requires entering the username and password of an admin user though.
Best Answer
The system calls
newsyslogto prune files every time a 30th minute arrives (or a little bit later if the machine is either extremely busy or sleeping).You can see the man page for newsyslog and it's configuration file or just dive in and edit the configuration file
/etc/newsyslog.confFor a pruning each month at midnight, you would change the time from @T00 to $M1D0 or for weekly on sunday at 3 AM to $W0D03
You might want to make sure you have enough space on your filesystem for a month - especially if you get some noisy software. You can also prune on size for a while if you wish, since that's easier to know when you'll want a prune based on how large a file you expect.