On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:24:27PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:20:03PM +0200, Bret S. Lambert said that > > Not to be a dick, but what does one second buy you, really? > > it's not really about that second. > actually, i dont mind losing some 5 minutes even > from the "current" month. > > > my goal is to have log files that end at a certain period. > > e.g. an archived log file of march that doesn't contain > april entries (from the "future"), although it's all right > if it contains a couple of stray entries from february > (the casualties of log rotation).
I'm still not seeing what you're really getting, here; you're just pushing that spillover from one end to another, which are just as easily rationalized as "the casualties of log rotation." But, it's your bikeshed, you can build it how you want. > > now i have logfiles named after the current month containing > all the entries from the previous month. > > getting the name of the previous month from the current month > is another can of worms i dont want to open. date +mm? > > -f > -- > careful planning will never replace dumb luck.
