The phrases 'log rotation' and 'rotate logs' could be added to the man
page for newsyslog to help with search and retrieval of the right page.
apropos would thus find the man page for newsyslog when the terms
'rotate', 'rotation', 'log rotation', 'rotate log', or 'rotate logs' are
used.
On 2009/11/23 13:07, lars wrote:
The phrases 'log rotation' and 'rotate logs' could be added to the
man page for newsyslog to help with search and retrieval of the right
page.
apropos would thus find the man page for newsyslog when the terms
'rotate', 'rotation', 'log rotation', 'rotate
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On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:12:46 +0001
Jason McIntyre j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:16:22PM +0200, lars wrote:
Thanks. The change can be smaller then.
/Lars
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Stuart Henderson wrote:
...apropos(1) only searches titles ...
$ cvs diff
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:27:45PM +0100, Robert wrote:
i wonder what the difference between trim and rotate is, in this
context. and whether it's a point we need to make anyway.
it could be we can get away with just rotate log files, but i'm not
sure. (what if someone is looking for
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jason McIntyre j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote:
anyone else want to chip in?
I think rotate log files is sufficiently clear. I think that's
jargon that most sysadmins would understand, and it's also probably
the first thing people would search for.
I'm not a fan of
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:55:01AM -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jason McIntyre j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote:
anyone else want to chip in?
I think rotate log files is sufficiently clear. I think that's
jargon that most sysadmins would understand, and it's also
Jason McIntyre wrote:
hmm. it can compress logs too - should we stick that in? (i'm joking)
the point is to make it sane. so the question is still is there a
difference between trimming logs and rotating them? and, if there is, is
it a distinction that a manual page description needs to make?
Jason McIntyre just said:
i'll change it to rotate log files.
Good.
As Matthew observed, files are renamed and deleted, but not trimmed.
While here, i must admit i don't like the first two sentences of
newsyslog(8) at all.
* The text doesn't start by saying what the tool really does.
*
