On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:41:23AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:24:08PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 07:24:05AM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > > Nicolas Williams writes:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:21:52PM -0700, Jyri Virkki wrote:
> > > > > - Already knows how to use it so goes ahead and sets it up (doesn't
> > > > > need
> > > > > to read the manpage)
> > > >
> > > > "Sets it up" -> edit root's crontab?
> > >
> > > Do you mean to say that installing the package doesn't automatically
> > > do that, so the software is usable out of the box? That'd be a shame.
>
> > I'm not sure how the packager would have any idea what logs I might be
> > interested in rotating. I don't expect installing the StarOffice
> > packages to update my CV for me :)
>
> Presumably it would install a config file that rotates no logs but still
> install the cronjob.
How often might we run this superfluous and pointless process, pray
tell? My logs may need rotating every ten minutes, someone else's not
so often. Again, there is no way for the packager to tell.
The difference with the default logadm entries is they actually usefully
do stuff right now; unless there are new log files created that
logrotate can make itself useful with by default (and I feel that would be
an exercise in futility), I object to the periodic running of a cron job
that will do nothing.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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