On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:33:04AM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > Surely it depends - some thing are highly distro-specific. The amount of > detritus that accumulates in upstream contrib directories over the > years... scripts that new integrators would surely rather rewrite for > their own context.
I just don't see why different distros need to come up with different log rotating strategies. If one distro does the work, then all can and should benefit. Also it will be less surprising for upstream, when they introduce a rotation-with-purging concept. > > > What do we think of that idea? It seems logical - no point in rotating > > > tiny files! > > > > It's a trade off to what should be kept. If you have strict > > requirements on how many days can be kept, then also small files > > must be treated. > > Not sure what you're suggesting there, I mean that there's no point in > splitting the master log file into tiny fragments in the first place, > not that they shouldn't be kept - to the contrary! I don't think we have > to be too tight on the storage, just to be bounded, not be pathological > and not leave a dog's breakfast on the user's filesystem! I'm saying that in some jurisdictions you cannot keep such logs longer than X days. If you skip over small files, you will keep them longer than X days.
