On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:55PM +0300, Artis Caune wrote:
> How about aditional flag ("X") to newsyslog, which don't compress first
> log file?
> This is useful for apache.
>...
After a bit of discussion here, and using a patch to newsyslog.c
supplied by Dirk GOUDERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (which
On Fri, 10.08.2007 at 09:13:18 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:55PM +0300, Artis Caune wrote:
> > How about aditional flag ("X") to newsyslog, which don't compress first
> > log file?
> >...
>
> Interesting idea, but it still falls short of something we recently
> ne
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 02:24:20PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> ...
> > We have a requirement to retain some number of logfiles, but only
> > compress those older than the Nth generation.
> >
> > Thus, we might retain 90 "rotated" generations of the log file, of which
> > the oldest 50 are com
> Ah -- well, then: by all means. I'm even more willing to test other
> folks' work than I am to hack away at code. :-}
>
> And since I had tested my own Perl script, I think I should be able to
> help out with this. :-)
>
> And "after Sunday" is not a problem at all: thank you!
I tested the
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 04:39:42PM +0200, Dirk GOUDERS wrote:
>
> > We could extend the 'count' field to accept 'N+M'. N being the number of
> > plain log files and M the number of compressed ones.
> >
> > This would also negate the need for a new flag.
>
> It could also be done with a numerical
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 04:12:29PM +0200, Joost Bekkers wrote:
> On Fri, August 10, 2007 18:13, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >
> > Biggest problem I can see (with what I want to accomplish) is how to
> > specify it in the config file.
> >
>
> We could extend the 'count' field to accept 'N+M'. N being
> We could extend the 'count' field to accept 'N+M'. N being the number of
> plain log files and M the number of compressed ones.
>
> This would also negate the need for a new flag.
It could also be done with a numerical flag "n" where n is a number that
specifies the extension of the logfile up
On Fri, August 10, 2007 18:13, David Wolfskill wrote:
>
> Biggest problem I can see (with what I want to accomplish) is how to
> specify it in the config file.
>
We could extend the 'count' field to accept 'N+M'. N being the number of
plain log files and M the number of compressed ones.
This woul
> How about using the flag "0" similar to that in newsyslog written by
> Theodore Ts'o of MIT Project Athena:
Sorry, I have to correct myself:
The flag "0" appears in the enhanced version of newsyslog that
is maintained by Greg A. Woods.
Dirk
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:19:55PM +0300, Artis Caune wrote:
> How about aditional flag ("X") to newsyslog, which don't compress first
> log file?
>...
Interesting idea, but it still falls short of something we recently
needed to do at work:
We have a requirement to retain some number of logfile
> How about aditional flag ("X") to newsyslog, which don't compress first
> log file?
How about using the flag "0" similar to that in newsyslog written by
Theodore Ts'o of MIT Project Athena:
0 The 0 flag means that the most recent archive of the log
file (i.e. t
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:51+0200, Trond Endrest�l wrote:
Why do you need to complicate matters?
My bad. I didn't read your entire post. I thought you wanted to
drop compression of every generation of the log files.
Sorry for the noise.
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:19+0300, Artis Caune wrote:
How about aditional flag ("X") to newsyslog, which don't compress first log
file?
Why do you need to complicate matters? Just remove the Z flag from the
applicable lines in /etc/newsyslog.conf, a
How about aditional flag ("X") to newsyslog, which don't compress first
log file?
This is useful for apache.
# cat /etc/newsyslog.conf
/var/log/httpd-access.log www:www 640 64 * $W1D0 BCZX
/var/run/httpd.pid 30
# ls /var/log/archive2/
httpd-access.log.0
httpd-access.log.1.gz
httpd-
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