I really do not think that it is necessary to add this to a logging program. There are other features that I would prefer to see before this. There are a lot of other programs that already have this functionality for syslog-ng. If you run these often enough you should not have your log size problem. Richard
-----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Balazs Scheidler Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 3:15 AM To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]syslog-ng log file rotation based on size
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:33:03AM -0800, Nate Campi wrote:
standpoint it's sometimes best to keep them smaller and deal with them in smaller chunks anyways; especially when you need to rotate logs off a machine to save local disk space.
Any hope of such a feature Bazsi? Perhaps in syslog-ng 2?
I don't really want to bloat syslog-ng too much with log rotation, unless the feature is general enough.
The possibility to call an external program regularly for each file destination would be fine, however how often should this program be called?
Or create three options like:
rotate_program rotate_if_older rotate_if_larger
And pass the file to be rotated to rotate_program?
rotate_if_older would be problematic as syslog-ng has no information when it started to write to a given file.
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