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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 07:48:22 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.8 
Message-ID:  <20010719144822.B5C133E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <20721.995553422@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:37:02 %2B0200"

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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> writes:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:18:43 MST, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 
> >   Although they sound the same, since both of them rotate logs at the
> >   beginning of the day, the former ended up taking place on, e.g., July
> >   31 00:00 instead of the expected July 31 23:59.  This is contraty to POLA
> .
> 
> July 31 23:59 isn't good, it's just "not as bad as" July 31 00:00.  Both
> allow for logs from last month to end up in this month's files.
> 
> This example should be shot.  Even if it isn't replaced with an example
> of "rotate at the first day of every month at midnight", it should still
> be shot.

Did you actually look at the diff, or are you just complaining about
the commit log?  Now that I read it again the latter wasn't all that
great, but the actual change is fine, IMO.

> 
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
> 

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