On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:55, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Logrotate is the program called by cron to rename and expire log > files. Ruedinger Oertel at SUSE (ro@xxxxxxx) has some patches that > enhance the basic Redhat logrotate with "dateext". This allows a > dated log file extension rather than a numbered one, for example > /var/log/messages.20031029 . The old logfiles do not get renamed, > just discarded after they get too old. This is a lot easier on > rsync, and it also is easier to administer. +1 for this feature. I would also like to see a method to skip the rotation on certain days, i.e. the week-end, but I admit this is my fault since I use it to do a nightly FULL backup of my CVS. I will be more than happy to test the new package as soon as it is available. cheers Gianluca
