[syslog-ng] log file size limit

[Gergely Nagy]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 19:58, Sergei Zhirikov <sfzhi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2011-07-25 17:50, William Tambellini wrote:
>> Dear Syslog-ng team,
>>
>> We are currently evaluating syslog-ng in order to satisfy some requests from our customers regarding logs from our software.
>> One of their requests is to limit log file size using some kind of rotation algo : if size > 6Mo then rotate to another file.
>> We have found some options in file destination like fifo buffer control but nothing about files rotation.
>> Is there anything for that kind of feature ?
>>
>
> I have a patch that does something of that kind. When the log file grows above certain size syslog-ng switches to a new one and renames the old one. Further processing (such as compression) should be done externally.
>
> I posted that patch in this list quite some time ago, but as far as I can tell, it went unnoticed...

Can you please post it again? I'd love to have a look.

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