On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:03:04AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote:
> > 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
Well, a system I work on regularly does 20+ million deliveries a week. Your
figure is pretty damn small, actually.
> 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
When you look after 50+ systems that all have unbounded resource usage,
you need a lot more than two eyes. Do you really want to spend your days
lookng at log file sizes or are you ready for something a little more
challenging? The novelty does wear off, I assure you.
Regards.
