Shaleh wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:58:18 -0400 ): |>Have you tried man on syslogd-listfiles?? It should give you a |>pointer. If not, contact the packages maintainer and ask him. He/she |>will know the correct way to do this. If the script needs editing or a |>conf file he can either make his own or ask for help. If this is not |>resolved, I will look into it when I get home. |>
ok, let's put this to rest: - YES, i've read the man page. - YES, it does give me a pointer. the pointer essentially says that syslogd-listfiles decides when a log should be rotated based on its entry in /etc/syslogd.conf. this was made clear very early on in the man page (and in my first email today). - to do what i want to do requires that log file rotation periodicity be decided independently of /etc/syslog.conf entry. it's entirely possible that (a) what i'm trying to do is supported by syslogd-listfiles, but i don't know what i'm doing; (b) what i'm trying to do is too stupid for words; or (c) it's a reasonable thing to want, but syslogd-listfiles does not support it. i believe (c) is true. =) seriously though, i'll wait a little while to see what the debian-user community comes up with. personally, i trust that if there is a coorect way to do this, someone on debian-user knows it. if not, then i'll file an enhancement request with the sysklogd package. -alan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
