On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 04:39:42PM +0200, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > > > We could extend the 'count' field to accept 'N+M'. N being the number of > > plain log files and M the number of compressed ones. > > > > This would also negate the need for a new flag. > > It could also be done with a numerical flag "n" where n is a number that > specifies the extension of the logfile up to which no compression > should be done. An example configfile entry for 90 rotate logs and 40 > uncompressed ones would look as follows: > > # logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags > [/pid_file] [sig_num] > /var/log/example.log 644 89 100 * J39 > > I already implemented that approach and am currently testing it. > When finished, I will post a patch so that David can try it, but that > will not happen before Sunday, because I am a little bit busy with > other things. > > Most of the changes handle the compressed and uncompressed logs and it > will be little work to modify it for the N+M count-field approach.
Ah -- well, then: by all means. I'm even more willing to test other folks' work than I am to hack away at code. :-} And since I had tested my own Perl script, I think I should be able to help out with this. :-) And "after Sunday" is not a problem at all: thank you! Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything and everything is a (potential) cat toy. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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