Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 01:48:12 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <p05200f1cba73875fbc8d@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200302141733.29304.wes@softweyr.com> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302141100.23529.wes@softweyr.com> <p05200f15ba72fb31e177@[128.113.24.47]> <200302141733.29304.wes@softweyr.com>
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At 5:33 PM -0800 2/14/03, Wes Peters wrote:
>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
Hmm. If syslogd can call newsyslog, does it need bzip/gzip options?
[I'm just wondering, I have no preference either way]
> > 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.
Based on a few minutes of testing, I think newsyslog will pretty
much do the right thing if you call it as:
newsyslog -Fr /var/log/somefilename
The '-r' is just so newsyslog doesn't turn around and send a
signal back to syslogd. I'm still tempted to add a '-R'.
> > 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?
I would add some default rotate-action to newsyslog, which
would be used if -R is specified and the file is not listed
in the newsyslog.conf file.
I think we'd then want some way for the user to change that
default rotate-action. Probably by something like adding
a line where the filename is <default>.
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