On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Garance A Drosehn <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > At 10:15 AM +0100 4/22/10, krad wrote: >> >> On 22 April 2010 08:33, Alex Keda <ad...@lissyara.su> wrote: >> >>> 22.04.2010 11:29, Gordon Tetlow ?????: >>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Alex Keda <ad...@lissyara.su <mailto: >>>> ad...@lissyara.su>> wrote: >>>> >>>> It's need feature. I test patch - it work for me (CURRENT, amd64) >>>> Can I use some as: >>>> <include> /path/to/dir/*.conf >>>> ? >>>> and can I create recursive include? >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, wildcards and recursive includes are supported. >>>> >>> great job! >> >> > Thanks! > > I also think this is a great feature to add. > > Just to be clear: This allows a config file to include some other > file, and that other file can also include more files with additional > newsyslog entries. In that sense it allows recursive includes. > > Note that it will detect when such recursion causes one file to end > up indirectly including itself, and will reject *that* situation. > So you shouldn't be able to get into an infinite loop of included > files.
This sounds cool; I've ever ran into a situation where I needed this -- yet. Although I'm sure when it's in the tree and available, I'll not be able to live without it :) >> i would be real nice is newsyslog also supported a date based file >> renaming >> shceme rather than the cyclic 0,1,2,3, much like the datext option in >> logrotate. eg >> >> messages >> messages.20100422 >> messages.20100421 >> messages.20100420 >> ... >> >> The cyclic renaming is a pain for incremental backups as all the log files >> are backed up every time as their contents changes compared to their >> filename > > I hope to do this after Gordon commits the new feature that he's > implemented. I know I've said that before, but I do have some > vacation time coming up soon and expect to do it then. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = dros...@rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or g...@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA This would indeed be a very welcome feature. I've been trying to devise a method (and the logic) to do something similar recently... I wonder, what might the time-frame be for adding the above feature? A "guess-timate" would be OK :) -Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
