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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Ethernet id
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 21:55:49 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
- Lines: 27
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- References: <1ebef5INNosc@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1ebef5INNosc@gap.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
- writes:
- =>
- =>>> Try grepping through /usr/adm/messages for "Ethernet address".
- =>
- =>This might not work. messages appears to have a size limit, and stuff
- =>drops off of the beginning. messages.old is the same, so it can drop
- =>off of there too. Just for fun, I grepped for "Ethernet address" on
- =>every file in /usr/adm on a long-ago booted NeXT, and it wasn't there.
- =>
-
- Not entirely. The stuff in /usr/adm is trimmed daily, weekly and monthly by
- the various scripts that are run via cron. This helps keep the logs from
- growing indefinately. For example, messages and syslog are trimmed daily as
- they can grow to a rather large size within a day on a busy server. The
- messages.old is the previous day's log.
-
- =>Mark Adler
- =>madler@cco.caltech.edu
-
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