Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:48:49 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Walt Pawley <walt@wump.org> Cc: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved? Message-ID: <48F44EE1.10206@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <p0624088fc5196caac074@[10.0.0.10]> References: <26face530810110933o1403705o625586ac53b309fb@mail.gmail.com> <p0624088fc5196caac074@[10.0.0.10]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Walt Pawley wrote: | At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote: |> newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file, |> messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc. |> |> This is ugly. | | IMHO, this is worse than merely ugly. I gave up "rotating" log | files a long time ago when I kept running into problems that | needed extensive time periods worth of log data with which to | resolve issues. I use some modifications to the periodic | scripts to do the log data archiving with time related names. | | Of course, if you're generating megabytes of compressed log | data every day, this is likely impractical but it works well | for systems I normally use. I note that syslog.conf allows you to pipe log messages into some other application. Simply using cronolog (or rotatelogs from one of the Apache ports) would allow you to create date-stamped logfile names pretty easily. Eg. *.* |/usr/local/sbin/cronolog /var/log/all-%Y-%m-%d.log This doesn't provide control of file permissions or compression of old log files, but either of those are relatively simple to fix. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3 ~ 7 Priory Courtyard PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate ~ Kent, CT11 9PW, UK -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREDAAYFAkj0TuEACgkQ3jDkPpsZ+VYhMQCfTMJFKWSGWLAOrbQgbZ3HFEWo DWgAoJDLjWy7kSwPxAzmUcXcZW1B1v0m =k4af -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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