Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:30:22 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: michael <michael@nettmail.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslogwithdate-extension-logfiles Message-ID: <p06002034bbf9bc628973@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20031206101611.GA21554@brenner.msresearch.org> References: <20031206101611.GA21554@brenner.msresearch.org>
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At 11:16 AM +0100 12/6/03, michael wrote: >Hi, > >I widely use FreeBSD and his enhancement's vs. other OS'es. > >Now i have the wish that the 'newsyslog' uses date-extensions >in the 'rotated' logfiles. >eg: > >messages.0.gz should be messages.20031206.gz and so on... > >or any other extension that will give the date in the >name of file? > >is this possible with the newsyslog? >I think no! And why? Right now there is no option in newsyslog which gives you that. There is a PR (problem-report) which has asked for this, and it is on the list of things I plan to do with newsyslog. Actually, I had planned to have that update done by now, but I had a few months of bad luck with some of my freebsd machines. (mostly hardware-related bad luck). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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