From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 03:13:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7822C16A4CE; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:13:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2684A43D2D; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:13:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i953DWLQ013203; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:13:32 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1096943605.1096.26.camel@prophecy.dyndns.org> References: <200410042335.i94NZDaL098088@repoman.freebsd.org> <1096943605.1096.26.camel@prophecy.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:13:31 -0400 To: Christopher Nehren , Brooks Davis From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.8 newsyslog.c X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:13:37 -0000 At 10:33 PM -0400 10/4/04, Christopher Nehren wrote: >On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 23:35 +0000, Brooks Davis wrote: >> brooks 2004-10-04 23:35:13 UTC >> >> FreeBSD src repository >> >> Modified files: >> usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.8 newsyslog.c >> Log: > > Add a new -d argument which is used to specify an alternate root > > for log files similar to DESTDIR in the BSD make process. This > > only affects log file paths not config file (-f) or archive > > directory (-a) paths. > >Excellent idea. This will cut down on a lot of verbosity in the >newsyslog.conf file. However, perhaps the accompanying patch is >a better implementation. It allows both relative and absolute path >names to be listed, ... I think your goal is very different from what Brooks wants to do. He is not trying to cut down any verbosity in the /etc/newsyslog.conf file, he is trying to make it possible to easily redirect the file. If I understand what you want to do, I would prefer to implement it in a different manner. >Also, while I'm here, is there any plan to port this to RELENG_5? I will MFC it if Brooks doesn't, but I do not think it needs to be done right now. I would prefer to wait until after 5.3-RELEASE is official. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA