Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:33:29 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> Cc: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <200302141733.29304.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <p05200f15ba72fb31e177@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302141100.23529.wes@softweyr.com> <p05200f15ba72fb31e177@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Friday 14 February 2003 12:17, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> I would not replace the historic syntax, but I would like to see
> something "more readable" for the new options. Instead of cool
> 1-letter codes, I think we could go with something a bit more
> descriptive.
OK, I'm cool with this.
> Something like 'max=256m', 'rotate=newsyslog' and 'rotate=rm'.
> Or I guess it should be something like 'rotate=trunc', so you
> don't have to deal with permissions on a newly-created log file.
Keywords are easier to parse than name=value pairs in this case.
How 'bout:
lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs 256K
local3.* /var/log/foo new 1K
ftp.* /var/log/ftp bzip 1M
cron.* /var/log/cron rm
> I'd also suggest that newsyslog be run with some (new?) option
> that says "rotate this file, even if you don't think it needs
> to be rotated".
newsyslog doesn't really seen to have this feature; -F just truncates
the file. I'll look into a proper "force" flag for newsyslog.
> I'd expect newsyslog to know *how* to do the
> rotation in this case (bzip, gzip, or alternate file-naming
> conventions, and permissions on the newly-created log file).
What should it do if told to newsyslog a file it is not configured
to handle?
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