Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:40:23 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved? Message-ID: <20081012174023.GA93126@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <p0624080ac516a586528a@[128.113.24.47]> References: <26face530810110933o1403705o625586ac53b309fb@mail.gmail.com> <p0624080ac516a586528a@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Sat 2008-10-11 14:58:39 UTC-0400, Garance A Drosehn (gad@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > It would be bad to change the default behavior, but there have > been several people who wished for some option for newsyslog > which would make it use some alternate naming scheme. There's > at least one PR about it, for instance. > > It is on my list of things to do, but I've had a long stretch > of time where I have too many things on that list. I wouldn't > go for a naming scheme that's as long as the above suggestion, > though. Perhaps newsyslog could support filenames in strftime(3) format, eg. /var/log/messages.%Y-%m-%d I think the format of newsyslog.conf might need to change to allow that though, breaking compatibility...
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