Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 14:28:32 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Cc: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: logrotate, a proposal Message-ID: <199802101628.OAA10519@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980210193656.294G-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Feb 10, 98 07:40:40 pm"
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#define quoting(Daniel O'Callaghan) // Hi Joao, // // I wanted to do a bit more with logrotate than just rotate to .0, .1 etc. // I'd like it to accept a strftime(3) format for the extension, along the // lines of e.g. 'date +%h'. Would you like to look into adding this facility? My main concern when creating this program was just extract the rotate facility from newsyslog. IMHO, newsyslog sources are a mess, and need a complete rewrite, but I forced myself to make the fewest possible changes. If I try to make the change you ask, I'll be tempted to change EVERYTHING, including newsyslog. If we had a logrotate working, newsyslog could just call it with the right arguments. If this is ok for everybody, I'll try to find some time this weekend to do this. If someone has any other idea for logrotate and/or newsyslog, please tell me before that. BTW: I have done this previous work based on -stable newsyslog. Are there significative changes in -current ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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