klaas.vangend@philips.com on Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:03:59AM +0100: Hi Klaas,
I'd to know wheter everyone agrees that these features are a good idea, and that the proper approach is taken to keep the configurationfile syntax simple.
you can achieve the functionality you are asking for if you use date- extensions to your files ($YEAR$MONTH$DAY) and run one or two very simple commands from cron like find /var/log -mtime +1 -exec gzip -9 {} \; find /var/log -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; I have to say that I run an additional script to extract logfile X of host Y from the log repository, so I don't really have to deal with those funny filenames anymore. I don't have a problem using cron. From your suggestions, the only one that I would agree is required or at least really good to have, is simple rotation by filesize using numeric extensions, where one could specify how big a logfile can be and how many .[0-9]'s backups should be made (the oops proxy server does this nicely). I would still leave compression and deletion to cron. Regards, -- ____ ____ / _/| - > Gregor Binder <gb@(rootnexus.net|sysfive.com)> | / || _\ \ \__ Id: 0xE2F31C4B Fp: 8B8A 5CE3 B79B FBF1 5518 8871 0EFB AFA3 E2F3 1C4B