It `builds' and installs...now to figure out how to configure and hook
it up with mcron and how to run mcron.
Also, its bash scripts. Well, if it works...
>From 93bdc5b5bf615d4641897c2058b303554c081062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:33:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add rottlog.
* gnu/packages/logging.scm (rottlog): New variable.
---
gnu/packages/logging.scm | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/logging.scm b/gnu/packages/logging.scm
index 68af09e..61fe85d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/logging.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/logging.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -22,7 +23,9 @@
#:use-module (guix utils)
#:use-module (guix download)
#:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
- #:use-module (gnu packages))
+ #:use-module (gnu packages)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages linux)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo))
(define-public log4cpp
(package
@@ -45,3 +48,31 @@ IDSA and other destinations. It is modeled after the Log4j Java library,
staying as close to their API as is reasonable.")
(home-page "http://log4cpp.sourceforge.net/";)
(license license:lgpl2.1+)))
+
+(define-public rottlog
+ (package
+ (name "rottlog")
+ (version "0.72.2")
+ (inputs `(("util-linux" ,util-linux) ; cal
+ ("texinfo" ,texinfo)))
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/rottlog/rottlog-" version
+ ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0751mb9l2f0jrk3vj6q8ilanifd121dliwk0c34g8k0dlzsv3kd7"))
+ (patches (search-patches "rottlog.patch"))))
+ (arguments
+ '(#:configure-flags
+ (list (string-append "ROTT_ETCDIR=" %output "/etc/rottlog"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (synopsis "The GNU log management facility")
+ (description
+ "GNU Rot[t]log is designed to simplify administration of systems that
+generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation,
+compression, and archiving of logs. It also mails reports to the system
+administrator. Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, in
+user-defined days, or when it becomes too large.")
+ (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/rottlog/";)
+ (license license:gpl3+)))
--
2.8.4
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