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Subject: Re: newsyslog/rotatelog
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:58:23 -0500
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hell no, i'm not going back to rotatelog:)) i'll stick with cronolog, i
think it can make same file i just can't figure out how to compress old
logs.. other then that i'm good to go..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Everlund" <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>
To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: newsyslog/rotatelog


> alexus wrote:
> >
> > can it compress old logs? and keep same file name of logs? so i
> > can put webalizer in crontab and point in one directory? and same
> > file which will never change? just like newsyslog does, old files
> > renames and compresses and new file still there under same file-
> > name.
>
> I guess it can't. Cronolog just organizes the log-files in a neat
> way, with human readable dates. I guess you have read the web-page
> and so you know it can't do all the things you are asking for. :-)
> The only other thing I can come up with is to use rotatelogs and
> write your own script for handling the compression, renaming and
> so on, and then put that into crontab. :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Paul
>


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