From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Feb 15 11:23:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD99937B401; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:23:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD9F43F85; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-75-151-22.san.rr.com [66.75.151.22]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B5E431B9; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:23:15 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Thomas Quinot Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:23:14 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Thomas Quinot , Gordon Tetlow , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302141100.23529.wes@softweyr.com> <20030215170555.GB65740@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20030215170555.GB65740@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302151923.14806.wes@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 15 February 2003 17:05, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2003-02-14, Wes Peters =E9crivait : > > To this end I've implemented another feature, 'N' for newsyslog. > > When the file size limit is reached, newsyslog is run with the > > log filename as the only argument. The size limitation in syslog.conf > > and newsyslog.conf should agree or you won't get what you expect. > > Well, precisely for this reason it would seem even nicer to me to > delegate the size limitation to newsyslog as well (perhaps rebuilding > a tool similar to daemontool's multilog based on code shared with > newsyslog). That's a better answer than incorporating multilog with all it's djb=20 licensing warts, but still costs another process for every log file you want to size-limit. Garance, did you get this one? Do you want to look at this? =2D-=20 Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message