Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:49:18 +0100 From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r215624 - stable/8/usr.sbin/newsyslog Message-ID: <75CE8BE8-0058-43DA-8095-5F2D13857C54@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikuYNBre%2BXfkqOV0fwPGFPSMJ2MuELziN=3z%2Byo@mail.gmail.com> References: <201011211110.oALBAA18053112@svn.freebsd.org> <AANLkTikuYNBre%2BXfkqOV0fwPGFPSMJ2MuELziN=3z%2Byo@mail.gmail.com>
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On 21 Nov 2010, at 13:20, Oliver Pinter wrote: > MFC or MFS to 7-STABLE this patch? Hey, I currently have no plans to merge it to 7, as I mostly considered 7 = dead at this point and unfortunately have limited time. If somebody else want to merge it that's fine with me. > On 11/21/10, Simon L. Nielsen <simon@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Author: simon >> Date: Sun Nov 21 11:10:09 2010 >> New Revision: 215624 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/215624 >>=20 >> Log: >> MFC r210372: >>=20 >> Add support for creating the archived log filenames using a = time-stamp >> instead of the traditional simple counter. >>=20 >> Using the time-stamp based file-names, once a log file is archived, = it >> will not change name until it is deleted. This means that many = backup >> systems will only perform one backup of the archived log file, = instead >> for performing a new backup of the logfile upon each logfile = rotation. >>=20 >> This implementation is separate from the patches in the mentioned = PR, >> as I wasn't aware of the existence of the PR until after I had >> implemented the same functionality as the patches in the PR provide. >> Unlike the PR, this new code does honor the 'log count' in >> newsyslog.conf so old logfiles are deleted. This new code does not >> currently support never deleting the archived logfiles. >>=20 >> Modified: >> stable/8/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 >> stable/8/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c >> Directory Properties: >> stable/8/usr.sbin/newsyslog/ (props changed) --=20 Simon L. B. Nielsen
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