logroate vs. savelog

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Moseley
Both logrotate and savelog are used in the system cron scripts. Is there a reason for this -- should one be used over another in some cases? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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
. Just replicate your logs following that entry as a template. Hope this helps some. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > ge

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

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 s

savelog

1997-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
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/sh # sysklogd Cron script to rotate system log files

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

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 Li

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, b

savelog with "immediate" compress

1997-10-05 Thread Debian List
Hi, I want to use savelog but I need the option that the .0 file created gets compressed immediately... Can savelog do that? Thanks Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: missing 'savelog' command

1996-09-10 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
`dpkg -S savelog' on my system reports: debianutils: /usr/man/man8/savelog.8 debianutils: /usr/bin/savelog At some stage it disappeared from my machine as well. I just reinstalled it. Giuseppe

RE: missing 'savelog' command

1996-09-09 Thread winspace
In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew D Moss) > After installing debian recently, I've started getting messages from > the cron processes that it cannot find the 'savelog' command. I looked > for it on my system and cannot find it. Anyone know which package this >

Re: missing 'savelog' command

1996-09-09 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Matthew D Moss wrote: > After installing debian recently, I've started getting messages from > the cron processes that it cannot find the 'savelog' command. I looked > for it on my system and cannot find it. Anyone know which package this > belon

missing 'savelog' command

1996-09-08 Thread Matthew D Moss
After installing debian recently, I've started getting messages from the cron processes that it cannot find the 'savelog' command. I looked for it on my system and cannot find it. Anyone know which package this belongs to? Thanks...