/var/adm/messages file rotation

Hello All,

I have a Server on Solaris 9, I would like to understand how exactly is this
rotation of /var/adm/messages file happening,

I am putting my observation here:

1.The logadm.conf file has entry as follows:

/var/adm/messages -C 4 -P 'Sat May 27 22:10:00 2006' -a 'kill -HUP `cat
/var/run/syslog.pid`'

2.root cron as well have two entries as:

10 3 * * 0,4 /etc/cron.d/logchecker
10 3 * * 0 /usr/lib/newsyslog

3.the newsyslog looks like:

/usr/sbin/logadm /var/log/syslog /var/adm/messages

4.the listing in /var/adm/ looks like:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 28 03:10 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 May 22 19:00 messages.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314 May 17 13:21 messages.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32070 May 11 04:51 messages.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3703 Apr 27 12:31 messages.3

After seeing the listing in /var/adm/messages file, i am not able to make
out what is the bases for this rotation based on the logadm.conf file, -P
option , i could not understand this.
So could you give some hints.


regards
sonia.

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