Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-30 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Stroller wrote: > > I'm sure it's possible to have a default logrotate.d > > file for the default syslog-ng file. > > I have to say I'm not really clear why I need logrotate for syslog-ng, when > I didn;t need it for sysklogd. sysklogd, I believe, has all the filenames for t

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-30 Thread David Mallwitz
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:45 pm, Stroller wrote: > On 30/7/03 3:45 am, "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy > >> my logfiles..? > > > > This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up > > with the config files

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-30 Thread Stroller
On 30/7/03 3:45 am, "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy my >> logfiles..? > > This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up with > the config files for it yourself :\ I managed to grab a bunch off my > debi

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-30 Thread Stroller
On 30/7/03 8:28 pm, "Marshal Newrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Alan wrote: > >>> - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy my >>> logfiles..? >> >> This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up with >> the config files for i

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-30 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Alan wrote: > > - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy my > > logfiles..? > > This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up with > the config files for it yourself :\ I managed to grab a bunch off my > debian box, but it'd be

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-29 Thread Alan
> - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy my > logfiles..? This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up with the config files for it yourself :\ I managed to grab a bunch off my debian box, but it'd be nice to see logrotate as a USE variable and e

[gentoo-user] Anyone using syslog-ng..?

2003-07-29 Thread Stroller
A week or two ago I installed syslog-ng-1.6.0_rc3 because it does some filtering I require on logs from my firewall & printer, which access it by port 514. Previously I had sysklogd-1.4.1 installed, and this had a script in cron.daily which zipped up & archived all old logfiles. Now that script is