Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] log rotation
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 04:13:48
Message-Id: 200210030938.25817.pauldv@cs.kun.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] log rotation by Toby Dickenson
1 On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:31, Toby Dickenson wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 8:17 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 > > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 20:34, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
4 > > > Why not just use app-admin/logrotate? I use metalog, and then
5 > > > logrotate to rotate everything else.
6 > >
7 > > Logrotate still needs a script to rotate those logs. It would be handy if
8 > > those scripts were installed along the package (preferably made inactive
9 > > though, possibly by removing read rights)
10 >
11 > An autologrotation use flag?
12
13 That could be a way to have optional installation of log rotating scripts. The
14 problem with automatically installed rotation scripts is that logrotation is
15 sensitive and should be done with the users' concent
16
17 Paul
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20 Paul de Vrieze
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