From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 28 22:58: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8DD537B71B for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:58:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA38750; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 07:56:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3A9DF2A9.1A5500CF@eboa.com> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 07:56:41 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just curious on log rotating References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > Hello! > > Most logs are rotated via newsyslog (configured in /etc/newsyslog.conf), > while accounting logs are rotated by /etc/periodic/daily/310...smthing. > > Why not to just rotate them all by newsyslog, so sysadmin would not need > to mess with dozen files when tuning his box for log roration. > > Just wondering... Well, I can think of one thing. Namely the case where one has multiple log files but just the one daemon. Like my current situation with apache. I'm entertaining clients who have clients whom will want their own logfiles. Even though there is but the one httpd master daemon to signal. Since I got tired of pondering the new graceful thingum and the way inode handling could throw wrenches into wheels I just switched to cronolog to be done with it. Who needs the agravation? Just one reason and probably not the one you wanted to hear. Alas... Roelof -- BeerIsBitter @ http://BeerIsBitter.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message