Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:23:14 +0000 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <200302151923.14806.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030215170555.GB65740@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302141100.23529.wes@softweyr.com> <20030215170555.GB65740@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
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On Saturday 15 February 2003 17:05, Thomas Quinot wrote:
> Le 2003-02-14, Wes Peters =E9crivait :
> > To this end I've implemented another feature, 'N' for newsyslog.
> > When the file size limit is reached, newsyslog is run with the
> > log filename as the only argument. The size limitation in syslog.conf
> > and newsyslog.conf should agree or you won't get what you expect.
>
> Well, precisely for this reason it would seem even nicer to me to
> delegate the size limitation to newsyslog as well (perhaps rebuilding
> a tool similar to daemontool's multilog based on code shared with
> newsyslog).
That's a better answer than incorporating multilog with all it's djb=20
licensing warts, but still costs another process for every log file
you want to size-limit.
Garance, did you get this one? Do you want to look at this?
=2D-=20
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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