From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 20:02:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC641106569C for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:02:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp8.server.rpi.edu (smtp8.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6DB8FC12 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:02:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp8.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9BIweeC015794; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:58:42 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <26face530810110933o1403705o625586ac53b309fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530810110933o1403705o625586ac53b309fb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:58:39 -0400 To: "Kelly Jones" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, techtalk@linuxchix.org, nmlug@nmlug.org, nmosug-l@mailman.swcp.com From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0) X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.10 () [Hold at 20.00] COMBINED_FROM X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.228 Cc: Subject: Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:02:37 -0000 At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote: > >...but has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files >messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a >constant name that doesn't change and then delete them after >how many ever days? It would be bad to change the default behavior, but there have been several people who wished for some option for newsyslog which would make it use some alternate naming scheme. There's at least one PR about it, for instance. It is on my list of things to do, but I've had a long stretch of time where I have too many things on that list. I wouldn't go for a naming scheme that's as long as the above suggestion, though. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA