Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:33:42 -0700 From: "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, techtalk@linuxchix.org, nmlug@nmlug.org, nmosug-l@mailman.swcp.com Subject: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved? Message-ID: <26face530810110933o1403705o625586ac53b309fb@mail.gmail.com>
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newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file, messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc. This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command: zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz and found stuff, they may run it the next day and get different results because the file is now messages.5.gz Improving my cow-orkers intelligence would be the ideal solution, but has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a constant name that doesn't change and then delete them after how many ever days? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
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