Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:10:54 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Dirk GOUDERS <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> Cc: Joost Bekkers <joost@jodocus.org>, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] newsyslog - don't compress first log file Message-ID: <20070811151054.GE77008@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <200708111439.l7BEdgAr045640@sora.hank.home> References: <46BC49DB.8060509@latnet.lv> <20070810161318.GX77008@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <1064.192.168.100.227.1186841549.squirrel@jodocus.org> <200708111439.l7BEdgAr045640@sora.hank.home>
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--xzjdnLf1/heGxxoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 04:39:42PM +0200, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: >=20 > > We could extend the 'count' field to accept 'N+M'. N being the number of > > plain log files and M the number of compressed ones. > >=20 > > This would also negate the need for a new flag. >=20 > It could also be done with a numerical flag "n" where n is a number that > specifies the extension of the logfile up to which no compression > should be done. An example configfile entry for 90 rotate logs and 40 > uncompressed ones would look as follows: >=20 > # logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid= _file] [sig_num] > /var/log/example.log 644 89 100 * J39 >=20 > I already implemented that approach and am currently testing it. > When finished, I will post a patch so that David can try it, but that > will not happen before Sunday, because I am a little bit busy with > other things. >=20 > Most of the changes handle the compressed and uncompressed logs and it > will be little work to modify it for the N+M count-field approach. Ah -- well, then: by all means. I'm even more willing to test other folks' work than I am to hack away at code. :-} And since I had tested my own Perl script, I think I should be able to help out with this. :-) And "after Sunday" is not a problem at all: thank you! Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Anything and everything is a (potential) cat toy. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --xzjdnLf1/heGxxoo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAka90X4ACgkQmprOCmdXAD1KxACeMdiWlJLw2VoQbf9n8nwtds1l twsAn2y5BI0eUh1Fc0xaN47lAj44SfXU =mA/C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xzjdnLf1/heGxxoo--
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