From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Apr 7 00:23:10 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA24983 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 00:23:10 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA24977 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 00:22:44 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20091; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 09:21:35 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id IAA19660 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 08:44:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA01566 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 08:25:45 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504070625.IAA01566@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: conf/301: Log rotation wastes _much_ to much space To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 08:25:44 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <13057.797211782@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 6, 95 04:43:02 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 929 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Here are patches to etc/daily, etc/weekly and etc/monthly to do this > 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! I think, we already basically agreed here. (Except for the >>shell<< functions :) -- i'd rather see any possible script/program. The execve() overhead is minimal compared to thinks like ``find / ...''.) I'd personally not really like to have the logs zipped. Larger machines prefer to have an own file system for /var, so the ``root has way too few space'' argument doesn't count there. I think the PR should be closed, and the restructuring of /etc/*ly should be moved into a TODO for > 2.1. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)