Bug#473546: rsyslog: please add missingok to logrotate file

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 06 Apr 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: > > I considered your suggestions and merged all daily rotated log files > (and added missingok, notifempty, delaycompress and sharedscripts). > > The resulting file is attached as rsyslog.logrotate. > I see the following problems: > 1.) The file has becom

Bug#473546: rsyslog: please add missingok to logrotate file

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Paul Slootman wrote: > On Mon 31 Mar 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> BTW, why are the mail files handled separately? Also, rsyslog could be >>> reloaded twice every night, perhaps that could be optimized as well. >> I grouped all log files that are rotated daily, and split all weekly >> rotated f

Bug#473546: rsyslog: please add missingok to logrotate file

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 31 Mar 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > In any case, using logrotate is cleaner than the old sysklogd way IMHO > > :-), although it was nice that sysklogd handled logfile names > > dynamically. > > If you need dynamic log files names, you could take a look at the > DynFile functionality.

Bug#473546: rsyslog: please add missingok to logrotate file

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Paul Slootman wrote: > >> rsyslog should not be reloaded twice every night (at least it should >> only happen once a week) as the first reload happens daily, the second >> only weekly. > > You should add the "sharedscripts" option, default is "nosharedscripts" > which means that the postrotate i

Bug#473546: rsyslog: please add missingok to logrotate file

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 31 Mar 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: > > BTW, why are the mail files handled separately? Also, rsyslog could be > > reloaded twice every night, perhaps that could be optimized as well. > > I grouped all log files that are rotated daily, and split all weekly > rotated files into mail and other

Bug#473546: rsyslog: please add missingok to logrotate file

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Paul Slootman wrote: > Package: rsyslog > Version: 2.0.0-2 > Severity: wishlist > > I always remove 'mail.info' from the list of syslog files, as that > always contains exactly the same as 'mail.log', at least in my > experience. > > However, the logrotate file installed by rsyslog only has 'miss

Bug#473546: rsyslog: please add missingok to logrotate file

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Slootman
Package: rsyslog Version: 2.0.0-2 Severity: wishlist I always remove 'mail.info' from the list of syslog files, as that always contains exactly the same as 'mail.log', at least in my experience. However, the logrotate file installed by rsyslog only has 'missingok' with the first stanza, not with