Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:05:43 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r210372 - head/usr.sbin/newsyslog Message-ID: <20100723090543.GA1756@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <201007221123.o6MBNIl8030833@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201007221123.o6MBNIl8030833@svn.freebsd.org>
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--ibTvN161/egqYuK8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:23:18AM +0000, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > Author: simon > Date: Thu Jul 22 11:23:18 2010 > New Revision: 210372 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210372 >=20 > Log: > Add support for creating the archived log filenames using a time-stamp > instead of the traditional simple counter. > =20 > Using the time-stamp based file-names, once a log file is archived, it > will not change name until it is deleted. This means that many backup > systems will only perform one backup of the archived log file, instead > for performing a new backup of the logfile upon each logfile rotation. > =20 > This implementation is separate from the patches in the mentioned PR, > as I wasn't aware of the existence of the PR until after I had > implemented the same functionality as the patches in the PR provide. > Unlike the PR, this new code does honor the 'log count' in > newsyslog.conf so old logfiles are deleted. This new code does not > currently support never deleting the archived logfiles. Very, very useful. Thanks! I'd love to see it being the default. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --ibTvN161/egqYuK8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxJW2cACgkQForvXbEpPzSM1ACgyeW29j4H2WU+hTwS2wffo4Z5 rQYAn3GuH/hVyfQta3XnOM/ESWSB6LM6 =SfRa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ibTvN161/egqYuK8--
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