Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 05:16:00 +0000 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications) Message-ID: <200302180516.00673.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <p05200f0aba75fb84266f@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302150905.08387.wes@softweyr.com> <p05200f0aba75fb84266f@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Monday 17 February 2003 02:45, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> In a separate message on 2/15/03, Wes Peters wrote:
> >On Saturday 15 February 2003, Thomas Quinot wrote:
> > > Le 2003-02-14, Wes Peters =E9crivait :
> > > > To this end I've implemented another feature, 'N' for
> > > > newsyslog. When the file size limit is reached, newsyslog
> > > > is run with the log filename as the only argument. The
> > > > size limitation in syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf should
> > > > agree or you won't get what you expect.
> > >
> > > Well, precisely for this reason it would seem even nicer to
> > > me to delegate the size limitation to newsyslog as well
> > > perhaps rebuilding a tool similar to daemontool's multilog
> > > based on code shared with newsyslog).
> >
> >That's a better answer than incorporating multilog with all it's
> >djb licensing warts, but still costs another process for every
> >log file you want to size-limit.
> >
> >Garance, did you get this one? Do you want to look at this?
>
> I believe this issue would be handled by the "force" option
> (either '-Fr' for now, or '-R' & <default> handling once I do
> that). So, my assumption is that there is nothing additional
> I need to do here. Let me know if I'm missing something.
Oh, Thomas was asking for a process that reads stdin and rotates=20
the data among log files in the way newsyslog does. The "right"=20
way to do this would be to extract the file rotation code into a=20
shared library (librotate - hahaha) and write a simple program to=20
implement the pipe functionality. It sounds straightforward, I=20
can look into it if you're too busy or not interested. Or buried
under snow. ;^)
=2D-=20
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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