David,

On 2008-08-07, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Well, it'd be pointless to rotate the logs if the old ones would never  
> get deleted.

I think that a combination of the "size" and "copy" options (of
logrotate) would allow for one big log file and several size-based
snapshots of that file.

> Keep in mind, by the way, that users would always have the option of  
> *changing* their log rotate script if they wanted the log to never  
> rotate/purge.

Exactly.

Sincerely,
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