Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 20:16:18 -0700
From: Paul Traina <pst@cisco.com>
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com ("Jordan K. Hubbard")
Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: conf/301: Log rotation wastes _much_ to much space
Message-ID: <199504070316.UAA09229@feta.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com's message of 06 Apr 1995 15:43:02 PST
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> > Here are patches to etc/daily, etc/weekly and etc/monthly to do this
> > job: (please note that you should gzip -9n all your <logfile>.[0-9]'s
> > before doing this! If you don't, you will just keep forever the old crud.
>
> Actually, at the risk of causing offense, I really hate the
> /etc/{daily,weekly,monthly} scripts and would like to see them
> substantially re-worked, not just patched like this!
>
> 1. They should do nothing by default.
Bzzz... they should not allow the disk to fill up by default.
The idea here is to build a unix system that any moron can use.
> 2. They should contain only shell functions for doing the various
> operations.
???
> 3. They should be written in such a way that /etc/sysconfig can
> define which security/logging/etc operations should take place,
> hopefully so that a nice front-end tool can actually do the
> actual setting.
>
> What I'm saying is that the user should be able, from an admin menu
> someplace, to go in and configure the daily, weekly and monthly tasks
> for their system from a menu of options.
>
> Anything else is just more hidden functionality, the likes of which
> FreeBSD is [in]famous for.
>
> Jordan
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