newsyslog(8) patch for both size and time checks
Mel Flynn
mel.flynn+fbsd.current at mailing.thruhere.net
Sat May 16 13:28:42 UTC 2009
On Thursday 14 May 2009 20:48:55 Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 9:57 PM +0200 5/13/09, Mel Flynn wrote:
> >On Wednesday 13 May 2009 00:29:36 Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >> If compatibility is essential, perhaps we could
> >> add a new flag to control this behavior. (I would
> >> argue for changing the default and providing a flag
> >> to obtain the old behavior.)
> >
> >Fine on the flag, maybe mergemaster could be a little more assisting in
> > this case, since I'm not looking forward to "just adding a flag". Like
> > mergemaster -p could auto-upgrade the lines that have both columns with
> > values?
>
> Somewhere on one of my machines, I started on a update which made
> it pay attention to multiple lines, and "or" those. So:
>
> /var/log/dhcpd 640 5 5000 * JC
> /var/log/dhcpd " " * @T00 JC
>
> would mean "rotate if either condition is true". My thinking was
> that I might also like to:
>
> /var/log/dhcpd 640 5 1000 @T00 JC
> /var/log/dhcpd " " 5000 * JC
>
> That would say that I *generally* prefer that the log is rotated at
> midnight, but if something goes wild during the day then let's start
> rotating them faster.
Thanks for your work on this. This looks like the best solution to me and
clear to read.
--
Mel
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