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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:25:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020912202513.27711A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020912234551.GA99846@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:40:27PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> > BTW, I assume that newsyslog DTRT when you have some old gz logs and some
> > old bz logs, and keeps rotating both in a DWIM kind of way?  (i.e., if a
> > site transitions to bz gradually by means of this default, the expected
> > thing happens WRT holding onto old logs?)
> 
> Nope, AFAIK, newsyslog will not look at the old .gz'ed log files when
> operating in 'J' mode.  I guess this is UPDATING fodder. 

Potentially also an update note in the release documentation.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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