On 30/7/03 8:28 pm, "Marshal Newrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Alan wrote: > >>> - Why isn't syslog-ng supplied with a suitable cron script to tidy my >>> logfiles..? >> >> This would be handled by logrotate, but you still have to come up with >> the config files for it yourself :\ I managed to grab a bunch off my >> debian box, but it'd be nice to see logrotate as a USE variable and >> ebuilds to throw a script in /etc/logrotate.d/ if they see it for things >> like postfix, syslog*, apache, etc. > > syslog-ng is much more configurable than sysklogd. > ...That's in addition to being able to split up what would > normally be one logfile into several, or combine a few, or just discard > certain messages. It's wonderful. I have /var/log/ADSL-Router-firewall.log /var/log/ADSL-Router-other.log & /var/log/HP-LaserJet-Printer.log > I'm sure it's possible to have a default logrotate.d > file for the default syslog-ng file. I have to say I'm not really clear why I need logrotate for syslog-ng, when I didn;t need it for sysklogd. > ... On the other hand, I seem to recall > the default syslog-ng.conf file not having very much in it. The default syslog-ng.conf file was indeed pretty lame. There's one in the forums <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57257&highlight=syslogng> which is much better. If there are any devs reading this, I'd vote for that to become the default. > At any rate, you get much greater control at the cost of greater > maintenance. Once you've figured out exactly what you want in your > syslog-ng.conf file, though, it's fairly easy to write up a syslog-ng file > for logrotate. I just choose all the options I want to apply to (almost) > all log files, then write up each individual file with any exceptions (ie, > daily instead of weekly). Thanks. I'll take a proper look at it. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
