Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:09:36 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> Cc: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, tom@sdf.com (Tom) Subject: Re: 2nd call for comments: New option for newsyslog Message-ID: <199801190239.NAA00650@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jan 1998 08:15:48 -0800." <XFMail.980118082245.dhh@androcles.com>
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> > On 17-Jan-98 Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > [snip] > > > >Maybe it would be better to make a generic shell script to do file > >rotation. It would need some flags, like gzip compression needed, > >etc. It could be used by user scripts also. I have some that would > >be much simpler with such program available. > > > > The smail 3 distribution contains a shell script 'savelog' which does this > very nicely. FYI, Here are the comments from the script. newsyslog already does all of this; please read the manpage carefully. Danny; FWIW, I think you should be looking at extending the parsing of the interval field. In order to remain similar to cron, I'd suggest: @daily @weekly @monthly @yearly @<time>[:<dayname>[,<dayname>...]] This covers just about every possible case. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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