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10.5: Allow the system.log file to be rotated daily
Authored by: MAW on Tue, Nov 3 2009 at 10:04AM PST

As a newby mac user my question is simple. How do I access the following program, change it and re-save it.

he easy solution is to change the following line in /etc/newsyslog.conf:
/var/log/system.log 640 7 * @T00 J
... to this ...
/var/log/system.log 640 7 * 24 J

Thanks,

Mark