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DJB's code, a last resort? I surely wouldn't refer to all of it as a 
last resort, not in the least. To each his own - of course. Although I 
certainly think you're belittling someone with plenty of skill. Do you 
regard Qmail as a "last resort" MTA? I'd have to disagree strongly there.

-mpf
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> writes:
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>
>>Or, as an alternative to Apache's logrotate, there is multilog from
>>djb's daemontools package - ports/sysutils/daemontools,
>>http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
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>>
>
>Anything DJB has written is a last resort, not an alternative.
>
>DES
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