Bug#551888: I second the original motion to make dateext default

2011-04-06 Thread Paul Martin
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 03:14:59PM -0400, Andrei Caraman wrote: > In fact I always add dateext to logrotate. It'd be nice if it came > with it enabled by default. Others may prefer the existing way. It's easy to change the default on a system by putting "dateext" in /etc/logrotate.conf Certain

Bug#551888: I second the original motion to make dateext default

2011-04-06 Thread Andrei Caraman
I run a bunch of virtual servers under OpenVZ. Some hold quite a few logfiles. If these logfiles are named by date, then the migration of virtual servers (which uses rsync) is shortened considerably. And yes, it would help with backups (those using rsync and incremental tar are the most obvious