From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 12 17:26: 2 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431A437B400; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766F143E42; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g8D0PZOo028000; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:25:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:25:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "David O'Brien" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf In-Reply-To: <20020912234551.GA99846@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message