[syslog-ng]syslog-ng log file rotation based on size

[Richard E. Perlotto II]

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

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> [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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