What? - (re)create the symlink every day. Talk about administrative overhead.!!
I suppose, I'm looking at most other open source applications, and I see a single (dateless) logfile the is rotated by logwatch or similar and would like to see similar option with xmail. Sure I could run a cron job to sort the symlink each day, but xmail has the ability to create smtp-yymmdd0000 - where 0000 is the hour/minute. So the logic in some script to sort out the symlinks would be horrendous. The other thing is - I'm running on windows ATM, but will be migrating to linux, so I need a windows sympathetic solution for the moment. I was actually looking at the named pipe option seriously, so the file needs to be created first, so when xmail writes to it, the receiving process picks it up. A single logfile name /mailroot/logs/smtp.log (same for smail, psync, etc) would be great, solving my named pipe requirements *and* make xmail more like other open source programs. A cmdline option to specify logfilenameformat='<process>-<yyyy><mm><dd><hh><mm>.log', would suffice. Where <process> would be the existing [smtp|smail|psync|etc] and <yyyy><mm><dd><hh><mm> would translate to the date, but of course you might specify it as <yyyy><mm><dd>. Other - non key word - values are just passed through, for example. logfilenameformat='<process>-<yyyy><mm><dd>.log' ==> smtp-20070318.log A single daily log logfilenameformat='<process>-<yyyy><mm>.log' ==> smtp-200703.log A single monthly log logfilenameformat='<process>.log' ==> smtp.log A single log Logfilenameformat='<process>-<yyyy><mm><dd><hh><mm>' ==> smtp-20070318000 Default/not specified (same as now) If you didn't want to rotate the logs, you'd not specify the date parts. You could use the $MCARO format Davide uses elsewhere, like: logfilenameformat='$PROCESS-$YYYY$MM$DD.log' ==> smtp-20070318.log A single daily log logfilenameformat='$PROCESS-$YYYY$MM.log' ==> smtp-200703.log A single monthly log logfilenameformat='$PROCESS.log' ==> smtp.log A single log Logfilenameformat='$PROCESS-$YYYY$MM$DD$HH$MM' ==> smtp-20070318000 Default/not specified (same as now) This would also make it easier for xmail admins to add an extension - vital in a windows environment for ease of use. Davide, what do you think? Rob :-) _________________________________________________ Note To Self: Remember to put something witty here later... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivo Smits Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 1:55 AM To: xmail@xmailserver.org Subject: [xmail] Re: Log file output Wouldn't it be better to just always (sym)link the last smtp-{date}.log to smtp.log (same for other files ofcourse)? So you don't have to choose... Ivo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
