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10.5: Allow the system.log file to be rotated daily
Authored by: sysherm on Wed, Dec 19 2007 at 10:14AM PST

Well, I appreciate the hint. My system.log hadn't been rotated since Nov 17 and had almost 45,000 lines. My MacBook Pro is usually asleep at midnight. Maybe Apple will fix this eventually.