Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:05:45 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: periodic and 310.accounting Message-ID: <200011122305.eACN5jB05000@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:17:02 CST." <20001112161701.A10495@futuresouth.com>
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> > Alternatively, you could send patches that add a new variable to
> > control the number of log files kept :-) I'll happily commit them.
>
> Would you accept an alternative 310.accounting that uses newsyslog?
> Seems like a standard utility to rotate all files would be nice. This
> would require a newsyslog.conf type file though - where would I put it?
I think it'd be nice if newsyslog could be told to ``just rotate this
file with this number of backups with{,out} compression''. It can be
given a file name, but still needs the config file to know when to
rotate....
There are a few periodic scripts that could benefit from this sort of
thing, but I don't think it's right to have lots of one-line
newsyslog config files lying around or even to write them on the fly
and then remove them after running pccardd....
I would have thought the best option is to either do the rotation in
a loop or to add the functionality to newsyslog.conf....
> Tim
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