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Subject: Re: Suggestion for newsyslog.c 
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> Suggested optional feature for newsyslog.c is to enable timestamp (or 
> similar) in the renamed files.
> 
> For example:
> 
> maillog.0.gz
> 
> would become
> 
> maillog.0.070701.gz
> 
> The format could perhaps be user-specified somewhere in 
> newsyslog.conf.   It groks different time formats, so support for that is 
> already there.
> 
> This would allow someone to accumilate a large archive of logs (sometimes 
> necessary) without having to manually rename (and move, before 
> rotation).   This could negate the current rotation of the log files... or 
> it could be altered as well to be optional in the newsyslog.conf file.

If someone's going to go that far, it'd be nice to be able to rotate
old logs into dated directory trees as well.

bl
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