[X-Unix] Rotating the console logs?

[Sharninder]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:04 +0530, Sharninder wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 02:14 -0500, Jeff Porten wrote:
> > Client just asked me how to set up his Panther system so that his / 
> > Library/Logs folder is rotated daily -- as it stands, these files can  
> > grow quite large.
> > 
> 
> afaik, you should be looking at periodic ("man periodic"). periodic
> usually already runs such tasks at a very unearthly hour. Since, most
> normal humans sleep at 3am at night, these tasks almost never get run.
> 
> You might want to set these to at a time when the system is actually up.
> Or even better, modify the scripts to run as a startup item. Go play :)
> 

You also might want to take a look at macjanitor:

http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html 

Recommendation comes with the usual disclaimer ! I've never used this
myself.

Regards,
Sharninder