Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] log rotation
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:38:33
Message-Id: 200210022032.59006.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] log rotation by "Christopher J. PeBenito"
1 (repost. waaah - closed lists suck)
2
3 On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 7:34 pm, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
4 > Why not just use app-admin/logrotate?
5
6 Ive used logrotate and /usr/bin/savelog (from sys-apps/debianutils), and have
7 no strong preference either way.
8
9 > I use metalog, and then logrotate
10 > to rotate everything else.
11
12 But you had to write the logrotate.conf entries yourself, right? Shouldnt
13 'everything else' take care of rotating its own logs?