Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-02 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/2004 05:53 PM, Adeodato Simó wrote: | albeit both are Priority: important, sysklogd is Section: base. and, | iiuc, base should be self-contained (that is, packages in base must | not depend on packages outside it). well, logrotate is almo

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-02 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/2004 01:10 AM, Martin Schulze wrote: | Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: | |>Hi, |> |>I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation |>scripts and not logrotate. | | | Try to convert it to logrotate and soon you will understand why

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:39:51PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:29:36 +0100, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Please send me the patch. > Honestly, looking at sysklogd's bug list doesn't make people get the > impression that it makes sense to file patches against

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:29:36 +0100, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please send me the patch. Honestly, looking at sysklogd's bug list doesn't make people get the impression that it makes sense to file patches against the sysklogd package. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Clemens Schwaighofer [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:02:44 +0900]: > > I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation > > scripts and not logrotate. > > albeit both are Priority: important, sysklogd is Section: base. and,

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:10:43PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > > > I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation > > > scripts and not logrotate. > > > > Try to convert it to logrotate and soon you will understand why it

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:42:09 +0400, "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> and before anybody asks, I already but all the things into logrotate. I >> just curious why its not there from beginning. > >With current default configuration, if I add some more log files >info /etc/syslog.c

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-28 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:10:43PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > > I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation > > scripts and not logrotate. > > Try to convert it to logrotate and soon you will understand why it still > uses savelog. It seems

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-28 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> and before anybody asks, I already but all the things into logrotate. I > just curious why its not there from beginning. With current default configuration, if I add some more log files info /etc/syslog.conf (e.g. to catch localN facilities), they get rotation automatically. Can the same be achi

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Clemens Schwaighofer [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:02:44 +0900]: > Hi, > I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation > scripts and not logrotate. albeit both are Priority: important, sysklogd is Section: base. and, iiuc, base should be self-contained (that is, packages in base

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation > scripts and not logrotate. Try to convert it to logrotate and soon you will understand why it still uses savelog. > Because it uses its own scripts, its rather tricky to configure. Eg its >

Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-10-27 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to know why sysklog package uses its own logrotation scripts and not logrotate. Because it uses its own scripts, its rather tricky to configure. Eg its impossible to have the first rotatet log (syslog.0) to be compressed. According