[Cc:ing Gert-Jan Hagenaars, since he implemented -d] On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:24:07PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > There's no rotation capability with -d or -D. Perhaps this should be > > Ugh :( > Surely that wouldn't be too difficult to do? Something like: > > ls -t1 $base.* | tail --lines=+cycles | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm > > with some appropriate checks built in... Without rotation, I don't > really see the point of savelog, I might as well roll my own in my > scripts.
The checks would need to ensure that those files corresponded to the date format, I imagine. > > documented, and perhaps -c should cause a fatal error if -d or -D is > > specified. > > I fully agree, the current behaviour sucks; giving an error when a > non-supported combination of options is given is the least that could be > done. The documentation will of course also need to be fixed. Well, I'll do those unless someone has a better idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
