Hello, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> writes:
> I have to admit I just do not fully get the thought process behind the > current design, so I wanted the option of "keep X old" to work around my > ignorance. :) Right now, the initial rotation is based on *size*, but > the number of kept old files is based on *age*. Would you be able to > shed some light on why did you go in this direction? Honestly my > expectation would be that size (for old files cumulative) would be used > for both. Well, my thought was: I want to rotate files periodically (so they don’t become too big and consume too much space) and I want to get rid of old logs (again to save space). Looking at the timestamp of a previously-rotated file lets you know if it’s “old”, so I thought it would make a good input. That’s it. I realize it’s different from what rottlog and other historical tools do, but I thought it was good enough to fulfill these two needs (rotate/compress and expire). And I thought that as a user I don’t really care how compression and expiration are implemented. I hope that makes some sense. :-) Ludo’.
