On 3/13/2017 7:02 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> From: "Todd C. Miller" <todd.mil...@courtesan.com> >> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:31:35 -0600 >> >> How about we just eliminate the "logfile turned over" message >> entirely? It's kind of bogus for newsyslog to be writing to the >> log files directly. I don't think that message provides any useful >> info. > > I do find the message useful as it reminds me that there is another > file to look into. > >
Along those lines, I wrote a script to rotate my logs because I wanted the rotated log to have the date in the name, instead of just a version number. While doing that, the line I add to the new log file is: Log file /var/log/messages rotated to log.messages_20170313T000102.log as that provides a trail of the logfile from one to the next as they are rotated. I suspect others may not want or need this type of trail...
