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10.5: Allow the system.log file to be rotated daily
Authored by: ghay on Wed, Dec 19 2007 at 11:51AM PST

It's worth noting that there is an interesting debate on the apple discussions forum, but it would seem newsyslog may even be run every hour, but again, rotation only occurs around midnight.

10.5: Allow the system.log file to be rotated daily
Authored by: chris_on_hints on Thu, Dec 20 2007 at 2:48PM PST

in the man page for newsyslog, it appears to imply that it is run every hour, but if you read it carefully it says that it *could* be run every hour because it is very light on resources.

that might be the source of the confusion