Octave Orgeron wrote:
> 1. We stick with logadm, forget logrotate, and perhaps enhance logadm?
> 2. We drop logadm and switch to logrotate.
> 3. Standardize on logadm and make it handle logrotate.conf syntax in addition
> to the logadm.conf syntax.
> 4. Standardize on logrotate and make it handle logadm.conf syntax in addition
> to the logrotate.conf syntax.
and maybe
5. Ship logadm as usual. Put logrotate into the IPS non-core
repo for people to pull if desired (with all the caveats and
warning comments mentioned in this thread...), but ensure
that it does not get installed by default.
The project team needs to consider why we need to invest
resources into putting this project into core opensolaris.
I haven't seen any rationale for /why/ we need this - and
being on a list somewhere isn't sufficient reason stop
using common sense...
As Richard says, logrotate does not seem to be one of those
"must have" things whose lack makes OpenSolaris unusable
compared to Ubuntu. Yes, it /is/ a "nice to have" convenience,
and users will be glad that it is easily available and just
works on OpenSolaris. But, IMO, it is just desert, and we
need to focus on the main course.
-John
