newsyslog

Log rotation for system and service logs.

FreeBSD

Last updated: 2026-05-11 Report error

Syntax

$newsyslog [OPTIONS]

Examples

$newsyslog -nvv

Examples

$newsyslog -F

Typical use cases

Dry run

newsyslog -nvv

Force rotation

newsyslog -F

Note BSD standard for rotating log files via newsyslog.conf.

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