svn commit: r210372 - head/usr.sbin/newsyslog

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:23:18AM +0000, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> Author: simon
> Date: Thu Jul 22 11:23:18 2010
> New Revision: 210372
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210372
> 
> Log:
>   Add support for creating the archived log filenames using a time-stamp
>   instead of the traditional simple counter.
>   
>   Using the time-stamp based file-names, once a log file is archived, it
>   will not change name until it is deleted.  This means that many backup
>   systems will only perform one backup of the archived log file, instead
>   for performing a new backup of the logfile upon each logfile rotation.
>   
>   This implementation is separate from the patches in the mentioned PR,
>   as I wasn't aware of the existence of the PR until after I had
>   implemented the same functionality as the patches in the PR provide.
>   Unlike the PR, this new code does honor the 'log count' in
>   newsyslog.conf so old logfiles are deleted.  This new code does not
>   currently support never deleting the archived logfiles.

Very, very useful. Thanks! I'd love to see it being the default.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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