> If you insist on just one file per time period (day) then you'll need
> to discourage multilog from automatically rolling by making the size
> setting absurdly large. Of course by doing this you remove a major
> advantage of multilog, namely resource control.
Resource control is a nice idea, but really I mean how many admins have way
more than enough disk space to handle logs? Even if a day's mail log reached
50mb (we have about 200 users, so this figure is pretty damn huge for one
day), then on a standard 9gb drive we can still fit 180 days logs, not
taking into account a compression factor of 10:1 once logs are archived, and
our normal backup routine. I'm not sure really why an option wasn't included
in multilog for time-based or size-based logs. Logs filling up my hard drive
is never a worry...I keep an eye on such things, and in the last 4 years
have never had a problem and none in the forseeable future, either. Of
course, a good backup routine helps.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions and help, guys (Harald in particular).
I'll give that a go when I get back.
/BR
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
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