Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 18:31:03 -0700 From: "Brett G. Lemoine" <bl@incyte.com> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for newsyslog.c Message-ID: <200107070131.SAA208868@blah.incyte.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jul 2001 20:51:51 EDT." <5.1.0.14.2.20010706204719.021f8540@216.67.14.69>
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> Suggested optional feature for newsyslog.c is to enable timestamp (or > similar) in the renamed files. > > For example: > > maillog.0.gz > > would become > > maillog.0.070701.gz > > The format could perhaps be user-specified somewhere in > newsyslog.conf. It groks different time formats, so support for that is > already there. > > This would allow someone to accumilate a large archive of logs (sometimes > necessary) without having to manually rename (and move, before > rotation). This could negate the current rotation of the log files... or > it could be altered as well to be optional in the newsyslog.conf file. If someone's going to go that far, it'd be nice to be able to rotate old logs into dated directory trees as well. bl -- //====== Brett G. Lemoine -=- <bl@incyte.com> ===============================\\ || Info. Systems Architect | || ||Core Unix System Services| Sarcasm is just one more service we offer. || || Incyte Genomics | || || Palo Alto, California | || |+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+| \\== PGP Key Fingerprint: 68 A1 2A 2D 82 CE E9 70 5B 80 D1 11 EC F3 FB 85 ==// To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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