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On 20/11/2016 02:21, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> On Saturday 19 Nov 2016 08:54:53 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>>> After looking thru the portage man pages, the make.conf.example in |
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>>> /usr/share/portage/config, and the `Portage log wiki' it still is not |
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>>> clear to me how long elogs are kept if you use the `save' flag in |
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>>> make.conf or not. |
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>>> I did see something about '7 days' but it was not clear if that is the |
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>>> default and `save' over-rides it or what. Or if there is another flag |
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>>> that controls there duration... |
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>>> Can anyone throw light on that? |
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>> If you have logrotate then its configuration and associated cron jobs will take |
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>> care of that. |
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> What I want to know is if the elog program will do something on its |
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> own... I'm wanting to hang on to the logs a good while... I saw |
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> something in my readings about the elog system about 7 days... was not |
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> clear if that is a defalult or what. |
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> So my fear was losing them even if I am logrotate at them in some |
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> capacity. So I'm asking about inside the elog program... what happens |
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> to the logs and when. |
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elog only appends to the log files. If you want rotation etc, use logrotate |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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