Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:22:27 +0000 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Cc: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: newsyslog patch implementing file includes Message-ID: <k2m179b97fb1004232222k8ecce8d9t543d03e39d992cde@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <p06240810c7f80a357be5@128.113.24.47> References: <y2i4e571dd71004212055v17af3f28v172b8f8204b0b7e8@mail.gmail.com> <4BCFF81A.6050006@lissyara.su> <s2q4e571dd71004220029qb9a04325h1064c4ab458b1526@mail.gmail.com> <4BCFFBC1.2080703@lissyara.su> <n2zd36406631004220215o20f12704nc75637ed60773817@mail.gmail.com> <p06240810c7f80a357be5@128.113.24.47>
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> wrote: > At 10:15 AM +0100 4/22/10, krad wrote: >> >> On 22 April 2010 08:33, Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> wrote: >> >>> 22.04.2010 11:29, Gordon Tetlow ?????: >>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su <mailto: >>>> admin@lissyara.su>> wrote: >>>> >>>> It's need feature. I test patch - it work for me (CURRENT, amd64) >>>> Can I use some as: >>>> <include> /path/to/dir/*.conf >>>> ? >>>> and can I create recursive include? >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, wildcards and recursive includes are supported. >>>> >>> great job! >> >> > Thanks! > > I also think this is a great feature to add. > > Just to be clear: This allows a config file to include some other > file, and that other file can also include more files with additional > newsyslog entries. In that sense it allows recursive includes. > > Note that it will detect when such recursion causes one file to end > up indirectly including itself, and will reject *that* situation. > So you shouldn't be able to get into an infinite loop of included > files. This sounds cool; I've ever ran into a situation where I needed this -- yet. Although I'm sure when it's in the tree and available, I'll not be able to live without it :) >> i would be real nice is newsyslog also supported a date based file >> renaming >> shceme rather than the cyclic 0,1,2,3, much like the datext option in >> logrotate. eg >> >> messages >> messages.20100422 >> messages.20100421 >> messages.20100420 >> ... >> >> The cyclic renaming is a pain for incremental backups as all the log files >> are backed up every time as their contents changes compared to their >> filename > > I hope to do this after Gordon commits the new feature that he's > implemented. I know I've said that before, but I do have some > vacation time coming up soon and expect to do it then. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA This would indeed be a very welcome feature. I've been trying to devise a method (and the logic) to do something similar recently... I wonder, what might the time-frame be for adding the above feature? A "guess-timate" would be OK :) -Brandon
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