[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
> > Request to DJB: time-based logging in multilog would be very useful to
> > many people. Please consider it as an option besides size-based
> > rotation, somewhat like FreeBSD's newsyslog. I do understand that
> > time-based logging could fill up a disk, but that's a risk an end-user
> > can take themselves.
>
> Both features could be combined to get the best of both.
Nope. How do you deal with too many log entries in too short a period
of time? If you base it on size, you lose log entries. If you base
it on time, you run the risk of filling up the disk space, and losing
something else.
Time-based logging doesn't solve any serious problem, since you can
pull the log file entries out of multiple files very easily. The name
of the file has the time of the first entry, and the timestamp of the
file has the time of the last entry. You want perl code? I've got it.
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