Re: [sniffer] zipping log files

2006-05-12 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Pete, Friday, May 12, 2006, 1:48:00 PM, you wrote: > Hello Sniffer Folks, >>> I expect to be able to accept compressed log files within the next >>> few days if all goes as planned. >>> >>> I will announce that ability on this list when we are ready. >> >>Is it possible now? >> >>Roger >

[sniffer] zipping log files

2006-05-12 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks, >> I expect to be able to accept compressed log files within the next >> few days if all goes as planned. >> >> I will announce that ability on this list when we are ready. > >Is it possible now? > >Roger Sorry for the odd way of posting this response, I'm in the middle of ch

Re: [sniffer] zipping log files

2006-05-12 Thread Roger Moser
On February 9, 2006 Pete wrote: > I expect to be able to accept compressed log files within the next few > days if all goes as planned. > > I will announce that ability on this list when we are ready. Is it possible now? Roger This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For informa

Re: [sniffer] zipping log files

2006-02-09 Thread Pete McNeil
On Thursday, February 9, 2006, 2:34:00 AM, Roger wrote: RM> At http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/LogsHelp.html it says: RM> "2. Do not compress your log files." RM> Is it possible to remove that restriction? The size of zipped log files is RM> only 13%. Not at the moment... the pr

[sniffer] zipping log files

2006-02-08 Thread Roger Moser
At http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/LogsHelp.html it says: "2. Do not compress your log files." Is it possible to remove that restriction? The size of zipped log files is only 13%. Roger This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscriptio

Re: [sniffer] zipping log files

2004-07-17 Thread Matt
Pete McNeil wrote: On Friday, July 16, 2004, 11:04:42 PM, Matt wrote: M> gzip should be able to handle standard zip files. You mentioned a while Key word being _should_ ;-) Well, there's always Info-ZIP's UnZip for Linux if it doesn't: http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html . I thou

Re[2]: [sniffer] zipping log files

2004-07-17 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, July 16, 2004, 11:04:42 PM, Matt wrote: M> gzip should be able to handle standard zip files. You mentioned a while Key word being _should_ ;-) M> back about possibly changing everything to a .gz extension first, and I M> think that makes sense. It shouldn't be more than a single li

Re: [sniffer] zipping log files

2004-07-16 Thread Matt
Pete McNeil wrote: That's a bit confusing. (use Winzip, but don't discriminate against open source (gzip?)) "non-open source", not just "open source". Should make sense. Anyway, I haven't had time to dive into that again. My responsibilities have been expanding at an astonishing rate. We will

Re: [sniffer] zipping log files

2004-07-16 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, July 16, 2004, 10:17:59 PM, Matt wrote: M> Please note that I'm using WinZip 9.0's Command Line Option which is M> free for registered users of WinZip. I prefer this over gzip because I M> use WinZip anyway and like the right click menu zipping that it provides M> for, and the comman

[sniffer] zipping log files

2004-07-16 Thread Matt
Pete, Due to growing log file sizes and a ridiculous amount of fragmentation caused by all of the associated products, I was forced to move to a system that does hourly rotation of my logs, moving them to a different drive, and then zipping them up after midnight. I'm thinking that you would sa