Dean Roehrich wrote:
>
> 
> The two issues remaining to be addressed in this case are:
> 
> 1) Some note linking logadm(1m) to logrotate(1m).  We chose Nico's
> recommendation from mid-day yesterday to update the SEE ALSO section in
> logrotate(1m).

I'm not holding the case up for it but I sure would like if it can
also include an explanatory comments in the distributed logrotate.conf.  

The main target user for the familiarity of logrotate is, well,
familiar with it already so they won't be reading the manpage so the
comment there will be missed.  

Which will in some cases lead to an annoyed customer and costly
support calls when they call Sun trying to figure out what mysterious
force is messing up with the log files that logrotate is handling.

If I was doing this case I'd add something like this to the top of the
config file (possibly spending some more time polishing the wording if
I was doing the putback..)


# Note: logadm(1M) is the default and recommended log rotation tool
# in OpenSolaris. By default it is being invoked from the crontab of root.
# If enabling logrotate, either avoid configuring it to manage the same 
# logfiles are logadm or disable logadm, to avoid conflicts.


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Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems

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