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Walt Pawley wrote:
| At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote:
| newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
| messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
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| This is ugly.
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| IMHO, this is worse than merely ugly. I
At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote:
newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
This is ugly.
IMHO, this is worse than merely ugly. I gave up rotating log
files a long time ago when I kept running into problems that
On Sat 2008-10-11 14:58:39 UTC-0400, Garance A Drosehn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
It would be bad to change the default behavior, but there have
been several people who wished for some option for newsyslog
which would make it use some alternate naming scheme. There's
at least one PR about
newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:
zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz
and found stuff, they may run it the next day and get different
results
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:33:42AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:
zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz
and
On Oct 11, 2008, at 09:46, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:33:42AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:
At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote:
...but has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files
messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a
constant name that doesn't change and then delete them after
how many ever days?
It would be bad to change the default
