Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 16:43:02 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: conf/301: Log rotation wastes _much_ to much space Message-ID: <13057.797211782@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Apr 95 13:40:04 PDT." <199504062040.NAA07311@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Here are patches to etc/daily, etc/weekly and etc/monthly to do this
> job: (please note that you should gzip -9n all your <logfile>.[0-9]'s
> before doing this! If you don't, you will just keep forever the old crud.
Actually, at the risk of causing offense, I really hate the
/etc/{daily,weekly,monthly} scripts and would like to see them
substantially re-worked, not just patched like this!
1. They should do nothing by default.
2. They should contain only shell functions for doing the various
operations.
3. They should be written in such a way that /etc/sysconfig can
define which security/logging/etc operations should take place,
hopefully so that a nice front-end tool can actually do the
actual setting.
What I'm saying is that the user should be able, from an admin menu
someplace, to go in and configure the daily, weekly and monthly tasks
for their system from a menu of options.
Anything else is just more hidden functionality, the likes of which
FreeBSD is [in]famous for.
Jordan
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