Newsyslog must be correctly configured to rotate log files.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-65465r1_rule Newsyslog must be correctly configured to rotate log files.

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Newsyslog needs to be correctly configured to rotate log files.

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To view the settings for the log file rotation, run the following command: sudo grep -v "^#" /etc/newsyslog.conf The third column is the number of files to keep in rotation. If this is not set to the correct value for the organization, this is a finding.

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Edit the /etc/newsyslog.conf file to configure the correct values.

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