Jason McIntyre wrote: > hmm. it can compress logs too - should we stick that in? (i'm joking) > the point is to make it sane. so the question is still is there a > difference between trimming logs and rotating them? and, if there is, is > it a distinction that a manual page description needs to make?
rotatelogs(8) is also included in base and uses the term 'rotate'. In both rotatelogs(8) and newsystlog(8), the log, as whole file, slides down a fifo queue on its way to the bitbucket. I always previously heard that process referred to as 'rotate' and was using that as the search term via apropos in my hunt for newsyslog.conf(8) Due to the simplicity of apropos the words to index the man page on must be in the title whether trim, rotate or both at the same time. I propose the new title because that is the word I was searching for. /Lars
