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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:37:02 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.8 
Message-ID:  <20721.995553422@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:18:43 MST." <200107191118.f6JBIhw89355@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:18:43 MST, Dima Dorfman wrote:

>   Although they sound the same, since both of them rotate logs at the
>   beginning of the day, the former ended up taking place on, e.g., July
>   31 00:00 instead of the expected July 31 23:59.  This is contraty to POLA.

July 31 23:59 isn't good, it's just "not as bad as" July 31 00:00.  Both
allow for logs from last month to end up in this month's files.

This example should be shot.  Even if it isn't replaced with an example
of "rotate at the first day of every month at midnight", it should still
be shot.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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