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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r318250 - in head: etc etc/newsyslog.conf.d
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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 08:28:53PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:11:53PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > ...
> > Sure, all us old-timers have the finger memory for editing rc.conf and
> > syslog.conf and so on, but how often do you crack open syslog.conf with
> > the plan of editing 12 different lines in it at once?
> 
> Actually I don't want to open it [newsyslog.conf] at all, and on desktop,
> where odd things are noticed quickly, default rotation is good enough.
> I might want to edit it on server to e.g. keep at least one year worth of
> logs, and when I do, I'd rather edit one file instead of half-dozen.

Thinking of it, it occurred to me that some simple inheritance mechanism
that would allow one to set (and centrally maintain) default "mode/count/
size/when/flags" in /etc/newsyslog.conf, without having to touch every
individual /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/foo.conf (while allowing per-log and per-
mode/count/size/when/flags override) could address most of the expressed
concerns so far.

I just hope it does not smell like sys<cough-cough>d too much, because oh
boy, please no.

./danfe