John R Levine writes:
> I have squinted at the cyclog and other man pages in daemontools, but I
> don't get the big picture.
>
> I currently use syslog, and rotate the log files once a day, scanning the
> logs, making summaries, and keeping a week's worth of compressed daily logs.
>
> cyclog rotates itself when a log reaches a certain size, which is fine, but
> what's the right way to collect them and do a daily scan and crunch?
Unfortunately, cyclog currently has no way to tell you when it's
rotated a log. That's too bad, because you have to poll. It's
definitely abandoned a log when it removes write permissions, though,
so you could configure it to write a very large number of files of
relatively small size, and once a day, concatenate all the read-only
files, grovel through them, and compress them.
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