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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:40:23 +1100
From:      andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To:        Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?
Message-ID:  <20081012174023.GA93126@ozzmosis.com>
In-Reply-To: <p0624080ac516a586528a@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <26face530810110933o1403705o625586ac53b309fb@mail.gmail.com> <p0624080ac516a586528a@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Sat 2008-10-11 14:58:39 UTC-0400, Garance A Drosehn (gad@FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> It would be bad to change the default behavior, but there have
> been several people who wished for some option for newsyslog
> which would make it use some alternate naming scheme.  There's
> at least one PR about it, for instance.
>
> It is on my list of things to do, but I've had a long stretch
> of time where I have too many things on that list.  I wouldn't
> go for a naming scheme that's as long as the above suggestion,
> though.

Perhaps newsyslog could support filenames in strftime(3) format, eg.

/var/log/messages.%Y-%m-%d

I think the format of newsyslog.conf might need to change to allow
that though, breaking compatibility...



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