Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Unfortunately sysklogd uses a custom log rotate mechanism, > which starts the log rotate cycle at .0 > The default logrotate configuration starts the log rotate cyle at .1.
> This leaves .0 files around when you switch from sysklogd to rsyslog [2] > which will never be rotated. [...] > 2.) Try to log rotate the .0 files for the default Debian log files in > postinst. I feel a bit uneasy about this approach, for several reasons: > - It adds fairly reasonable complexity to the maintainer scripts, if you > want to consider all corner cases. > E.g. if you switch from syslog-ng to rsyslog, it is very likely that you > have old .0 files lying around (from a sysklogd->syslog-ng switch), so > syslog.1 would be older than syslog.2 which would be very confusing. [...] I do not think it is that critical to work around the (same) bug in other syslog implementations. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
