On Tuesday 02 March 2004 22:55, 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. I was seeking a such thing and would love to test it! However I see a small problem with it - webalizer or whatever log analyzer expects to find rotated logs as <log>.[1..x] will fail, but it's not that hard to make symlinks to workaround this. Is this done? -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/DA454F79 Key fingerprint = 684F 688B C508 C609 0371 5E0F A089 CB15 DA45 4F79
