On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 23:24 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > I am not generally against adding time-based rotation, but really, > this > is much less of a "necessity" than other things the journal provides, > which syslog does not: for example per-service rate limits, and > unfakable meta-data for log messages. I mean, really, how can we ship > a syslog where every random user can fake messages, say they are from > a privileged process and offer no way how to detect that? I am not saying you need to remove any of the good features, not even sure why you seem to make an either/or case. The point of adding time based rotation is exactly so that *more* users can use it and benefit from the other features. > > Also rotating based on use is generally annoying to admins, as it > makes > > more difficult to predict where stuff will end up and what will > > deterministically be in backups. > > For some sure, for most not. For most people you could simply throw away multiuser support and always run as root, I don't think that makes for a good argument to do so anyway. > > logrotate has time based policies for very good reasons. > > Yeah, because Unix doesn't really allow much else... > Oh come on, stop bashing unix, logrotate could certainly grow a size checking policy if people felt the need, unix is not holding you back, in fact you are building this stuff on a unix-like system. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
