Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@×××××××××××××××××.com>
To: "Christopher J. PeBenito" <pebenito@××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o, Toby Dickenson <toby@××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] log rotation
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:47:01
Message-Id: 200210021946.55371.tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] log rotation by "Christopher J. PeBenito"
1 On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 7:34 pm, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
2 > Why not just use app-admin/logrotate?
3
4 Ive used logrotate and /usr/bin/savelog (from sys-apps/debianutils), and have
5 no strong preference either way.
6
7 > I use metalog, and then logrotate
8 > to rotate everything else.
9
10 But you had to write the logrotate.conf entries yourself, right? Shouldnt
11 'everything else' take care of rotating its own logs?