"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyway, newsyslog automatically maintains N generations of log archives,
>compresses them, renames them, based on size or age. It really couldn't be
>any better. I don't need cyclog (do I?), and I'm a happy camper.
Unfortunately, newsyslog requires the use of syslog, which has its
performance, reliability, and security problems.
One thing that cyclog does that syslog+newsyslog can't do is set an
absolute maximum size for logs. Syslog will log until the disk is full
and throw everything else away until it's restarted. Cyclog will keep
N bytes of logs, maximum. That may by two years worth of logs or two
minutes, but (1) disk is never consumed without bound, and (2) every
message is logged to disk.
-Dave
