Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:15:56 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf Message-ID: <20020913222322.C9886-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <86ofb3c75p.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > At Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:35:32 -0700, > kkenn wrote: > > > Is this really necessary? bzip2 is much more CPU/memory hungry, so > > > that this change could really bite low-end machines. > > > > It's only a default..it can trivially be changed. Compressing > > logfiles is only done infrequently anyway, so it's not a heavy system > > load. > > > > > What's the gain? > > > > Smaller logfiles, obviously. > > I'd note that our zgrep(1) does not support bz2 files nor have we > something called bzgrep(1). It is a mess that you can't do a grep > over uncompressed files, gzip'd files and bzip2'd files at once. Similarly for "less *". It is a mess that users have to write their own scripts to support various types of files, and that the scripts have to exec a lot of processes to work right (they need approx. 1 `file' process for each file and one process for each file that needs to be uncompressed). > Do we have as handy a command as the following one that used to work > before the switchover? > > $ zgrep foo messages* > > If not, I want bzgrep in the base.. > > (bzcat messages* | grep foo is not an option because file names will > be missing from the output) Is this much of a problem? It would be more of a problem that bzcat doesn't work on plain "messages" (unlike zgrep). "less messages* | grep foo" can search all the files. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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