Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:48:55 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: newsyslog(8) patch for both size and time checks Message-ID: <p06240804c632166c0de5@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200905132157.14906.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905121354450.1756@woozle.rinet.ru> <p06240800c62f5d4bab62@[128.113.24.47]> <4A09F850.2080208@freebsd.org> <200905132157.14906.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>
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At 9:57 PM +0200 5/13/09, Mel Flynn wrote: >On Wednesday 13 May 2009 00:29:36 Tim Kientzle wrote: > >> If compatibility is essential, perhaps we could >> add a new flag to control this behavior. (I would >> argue for changing the default and providing a flag >> to obtain the old behavior.) > >Fine on the flag, maybe mergemaster could be a little more assisting in this >case, since I'm not looking forward to "just adding a flag". Like mergemaster >-p could auto-upgrade the lines that have both columns with values? Somewhere on one of my machines, I started on a update which made it pay attention to multiple lines, and "or" those. So: /var/log/dhcpd 640 5 5000 * JC /var/log/dhcpd " " * @T00 JC would mean "rotate if either condition is true". My thinking was that I might also like to: /var/log/dhcpd 640 5 1000 @T00 JC /var/log/dhcpd " " 5000 * JC That would say that I *generally* prefer that the log is rotated at midnight, but if something goes wild during the day then let's start rotating them faster. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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