Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:55:02 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: dhh@androcles.com, jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, tom@sdf.com Subject: Re: 2nd call for comments: New option for newsyslog Message-ID: <199801191355.LAA21638@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199801190239.NAA00650@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Jan 19, 98 01:09:36 pm"
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#define quoting(Mike Smith) // > 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. Yup, but this kind of thing is useful out of newsyslog also. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67
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