Re: archive rolling/cron jobs

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On July 21, 2003 at 17:27, Harshal Chhaya wrote:

> > 2- Does mhonarc have an capabilities of rolling archives, so that I could
> > specify changing monthly, quarterly, annually, or whatever? It looks like
> > users have come up with some home-grown solutions, but I am wondering what
> > the most common thing to do is.
> 
> I don't think that mhonarc can handle log rolling on its own so you
> have 2 choices - either create/adapt a script that manages the archives
> for you or use a tool like rotatelogs (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/
> rotatelogs.html) or logrotate (http://www.rt.com/man/logrotate.8.html).

I think two different things are getting mixed up here.  MHonArc
archives are not logs, therefore, using log rotating software will
not work with mhonarc archives.

--ewh

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