On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:01:11PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 18:19 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 06:11:42PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > > > In my quest to log package installation, I wrote a wrapper script for
> > > > dpkg.
> > >
> > > $ tail -1 /etc/apt/apt.conf
> > > DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"logger -t DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs";};
> >
> > I wonder if it would be possible to set is as default behaviour along with
> > some logrotate scripts. Users quite often ask where are dpkg's actions
> > logged so I think this would be good idea.
> >
> This would mean the disk would gradually fill up with logs,
^^^^
As it would for any log file?
> unless you
> rotated them;
^^^^^^^
With logrotate as most do?
> which seems to defeat the use case everybody has given for
^^^^^^^^^^^^
> dpkg's actions being logged in the first place.
To log ever package installation?
Would such a log be very large as compared to say a mail log or an http
log?
dpkg log < mail log << http log
making the logrotate use compression should help as it does with
any text file.
But I guess the file size would differ based upon your stream.
ie. a stable system would have a smaller log file than a testing system, etc.
As a data point, my unstable dialup system is averging 30k / month for a
dpkg log as I update about 3 times a month.
just my .01 euros
Kev
--
counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted!
(__)
(oo)
/------\/
/ | ||
* /\---/\
~~ ~~
...."Have you mooed today?"...
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
