On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:39:20PM -0500, Gainey, Joe (AT-Atlanta) wrote:
Is there any way to link the current version of a file to a standard location. If not would it be possible to add this functionality. Here is an example of what i have:
destination d_default { file("/var/adm/messages.$YEAR.$MONTH.$DAY") ; } ;
However, I have to recreate the symlink in cron every day:
ln -s /var/adm/messages.2004.01.13 /var/adm/messages
it would be nice if there was an option:
destination d_default { file("/var/adm/messages.$YEAR.$MONTH.$DAY" soft_link("/var/adm/messages")) ; } ;
Unless you have too little space to do it this way, I'd log to both: an archive and also /var/log/messages. Just rotate /var/log/messages every day with logrotate (or whatever) and you're set. -- Nate Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.