Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:13:22 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <p05200f0eba785d771c7e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200302180516.00673.wes@softweyr.com> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302150905.08387.wes@softweyr.com> <p05200f0aba75fb84266f@[128.113.24.47]> <200302180516.00673.wes@softweyr.com>
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At 5:16 AM +0000 2/18/03, Wes Peters wrote: >On Monday 17 February 2003 02:45, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > I believe this issue would be handled by the "force" option >> (either '-Fr' for now, or '-R' & <default> handling once I do >> that). So, my assumption is that there is nothing additional >> I need to do here. Let me know if I'm missing something. > >Oh, Thomas was asking for a process that reads stdin and rotates >the data among log files in the way newsyslog does. The "right" >way to do this would be to extract the file rotation code into a >shared library (librotate - hahaha) and write a simple program to >implement the pipe functionality. It sounds straightforward, I >can look into it if you're too busy or not interested. Eh. Sounds like too much work for too little payback, imo. >Or buried under snow. ;^) At the time of my earlier message, they were still predicting "maybe 1 to 3 inches" for us. We ended up with something like 12-15 inches. Not as bad as other places, but certainly enough to disrupt my earlier plans... I hope to look into the newsyslog changes later tonight. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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