Re: Ethernet id

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From: Paul S. Sears
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:55

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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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