Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] log rotation
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:51:55
Message-Id: 200210021551.54587.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] log rotation by Toby Dickenson
1 we leave log rotation as an exercise for the user ...
2
3 root@vapier root # emerge -s logrotate
4 Searching...
5 [ Results for search key : logrotate ]
6 [ Applications found : 1 ]
7
8 * app-admin/logrotate
9 Latest version available: 3.5.9-r1
10 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
11 Homepage: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/logrotate.html
12 Description: Rotates, compresses, and mails system logs
13
14 -mike
15
16 On Wednesday 02 October 2002 01:12 pm, Toby Dickenson wrote:
17 > Some gentoo packages come with log rotation scripts (sysklogd) and others
18 > do not (squid, wtmp, kdm). Is there a gentoo policy on whether packages
19 > should rotate their own logs?
20 >
21 > Would patches to add rotation scripts to existing packages be accepted?
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