Kenneth Lerman wrote: > The standard log rotate takes files: > > log gets renamed to log.1 > log.1 gets renamed to log.2 > log.2 gets renamed to log.3 > ... > log.n-1 gets renamed to log.n > log.n gets deleted. > > Renaming is very bad for dirvish because it doesn't know about it. So every > time the logs are rotated, you will get a new copy of each instead of just a > link. > > The dateext option to logrotate will do: > log gets renamed to log.20080320 > log.20080319 gets kept > log.20080218 gets kept > ... > log.2008?? gets deleted > (I'm not sure if this is the exact date format.) > > That mean links can be used and the only new files will be the ones for the > current dates. > > Ken >
Of course... That makes complete sense Thanks for the explanation, I'll check that out. I'm sure that's why my lib vaults are so large each night -Damian _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
