Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: >for LOG in syslog otherlog somelog morelog > > or whatever names you're using :) > > > bash(1) manual page would have told you the same, by the way. Yes, it was obvious to me once I had seen the answer. Thanks to all who responded. Bob --

Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Steve Mayer
Bob, The sysklogd script only rotates the the logfiles that are configred in the /etc/syslog.conf file. You can either add more log files in there or add the logfiles requiring backup to the bottom of the /cron.daily/standard script. You should see an entry there for the setuid.changes log. Ju

Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 11:22:21PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > cron.daily runs a script sysklogd to rotate the logs in /var/log with > savelog. I have added some logs to the defaults, but one of them doesn't > get rotated. Is there a way to reconfigure what happens with this script: > > #! /bin/s

Re: savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: : cron.daily runs a script sysklogd to rotate the logs in /var/log with : savelog. I have added some logs to the defaults, but one of them doesn't : get rotated. Is there a way to reconfigure what happens with this script: [...] : for LOG in syslog

Re: savelog with "immediate" compress

1997-10-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Debian List wrote: > However, that would cause the "useless" creation of the .0 file because it > will be nearly empty... :( each savelog would take up 2 files. It's just a shell script. Copy it somewhere (so you're changes won't be lost when a new savelog is installed) and

Re: savelog with "immediate" compress

1997-10-05 Thread Debian List
Yes, thank you. However, that would cause the "useless" creation of the .0 file because it will be nearly empty... :( each savelog would take up 2 files. Anyone used the "logrotate" program (redhat has it) Thanks Ricardo On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Debian List wrote: > > I want to

Re: savelog with "immediate" compress

1997-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Debian List wrote: > I want to use savelog but I need the option that the .0 file created gets > compressed immediately... Can savelog do that? No. However, I think if you run the same savelog command trice in a row, you will get the effect you want. file.0 will still be uncompressed, but the logs