On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:13:26PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> You need ISO8601 to support rolling on fixed dates (1st of the month, etc.)
>
> You need 'W-D-M' format to support rolling on a weekly/monthly/daily basis.
> This can't be done using ISO8601 because ISO uses fixed dates. (How would
> you specify rotating every monday using ISO8601, when the date of every
> monday changes from month to month and year to year?)
What I'm suggesting is the default newsyslog.conf use WDM everywhere,
instead of being half WDM and half ISO8601. Or is there something you
can do with ISO8601 that you can't do with WDM? This would make
things more clear for the new administrator.
If the answer is "because we've always done it this way", then I'll
document it as such. :)
--- newsyslog.conf-dist Thu Apr 19 10:10:11 2001
+++ newsyslog.conf Thu Apr 19 10:11:33 2001
@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@
/var/log/amd.log 644 7 100 * Z
/var/log/kerberos.log 644 7 100 * Z
/var/log/lpd-errs 644 7 100 * Z
-/var/log/maillog 644 7 * @T00 Z
+/var/log/maillog 644 7 * $H0 Z
/var/log/sendmail.st 644 10 * 168 B
/var/log/messages 644 5 100 * Z
-/var/log/all.log 600 7 * @T00 Z
+/var/log/all.log 600 7 * $H0 Z
/var/log/slip.log 600 3 100 * Z
/var/log/ppp.log 600 3 100 * Z
/var/log/security 600 10 100 * Z
-/var/log/wtmp 644 3 * @01T05 B
-/var/log/daily.log 640 7 * @T00 Z
+/var/log/wtmp 644 3 * $M1H5 B
+/var/log/daily.log 640 7 * $H0 Z
/var/log/weekly.log 640 5 1 $W6D0 Z
/var/log/monthly.log 640 12 * $M1D0 Z
/var/log/console.log 640 5 100 * Z
The sendmail.st rotation also seems odd: why rotate once a week at
some (essentially) randomly chosen time, rather than once a week at a
set time like the rest of the logs? But that's a separate issue.
==ml
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