On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 08:28:53PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:11:53PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > ... > > Sure, all us old-timers have the finger memory for editing rc.conf and > > syslog.conf and so on, but how often do you crack open syslog.conf with > > the plan of editing 12 different lines in it at once? > > Actually I don't want to open it [newsyslog.conf] at all, and on desktop, > where odd things are noticed quickly, default rotation is good enough. > I might want to edit it on server to e.g. keep at least one year worth of > logs, and when I do, I'd rather edit one file instead of half-dozen.
Thinking of it, it occurred to me that some simple inheritance mechanism that would allow one to set (and centrally maintain) default "mode/count/ size/when/flags" in /etc/newsyslog.conf, without having to touch every individual /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/foo.conf (while allowing per-log and per- mode/count/size/when/flags override) could address most of the expressed concerns so far. I just hope it does not smell like sys<cough-cough>d too much, because oh boy, please no. ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
