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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