Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:00:43PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> It would be nice if the filenames would be automatically follow
>> natural sorting criterias, like they would with NNN.
>> 
>> >        dateext
>> >               Archive  old versions of log files adding a daily extension 
>> > like
>> >               YYYYMMDD instead of simply adding a number.
>> 
>> That would be alternative. but wouldn't help handling the numbered files.
>
> Pardon?

Clarification, existing numbered file where the scheme to change to
use YYYYMMDD is not viable (e.g. co-admin of site)

>> I would be nice if the filenames would automatically have sequence
>> numbers that would be uniform, like NNN. Now the sort(1) command
>> cannot be easily applied to the names
>
> Is not YYYYMMDD uniform (until the year 10000, at least)? Does it not sort
> correctly?

Yes. But it could be made possible with the normaly numbered log files
as well.

Jari




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