On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:46:01PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Matt Zimmerman said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:43:04PM -0400: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:59:02PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > > > > Please do this instead. I'm not sure why sysklogd does it's own > > > rotation[...] > > > > Because sysklogd doesn't have a fixed set of log files. > > It does have a _default_ set of log files, which should be rotated by default. > Apache doesn't have a fixed set of log files, either, but it uses logrotate > just fine. As far as that goes, so does the syslog-ng syslogd replacement. > > It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that if you change log file locations > that you should/would have to change logrotation configuration, and having > syslogd be seperate and special is just adding confusion without much gain.
sysklogd tries to be better; it adapts to the current configuration rather than leaving it up to the user to update a logrotate.d file if they change the configuration. -- - mdz
