On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:23:18AM +0000, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > Author: simon > Date: Thu Jul 22 11:23:18 2010 > New Revision: 210372 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/210372 > > Log: > Add support for creating the archived log filenames using a time-stamp > instead of the traditional simple counter. > > Using the time-stamp based file-names, once a log file is archived, it > will not change name until it is deleted. This means that many backup > systems will only perform one backup of the archived log file, instead > for performing a new backup of the logfile upon each logfile rotation. > > This implementation is separate from the patches in the mentioned PR, > as I wasn't aware of the existence of the PR until after I had > implemented the same functionality as the patches in the PR provide. > Unlike the PR, this new code does honor the 'log count' in > newsyslog.conf so old logfiles are deleted. This new code does not > currently support never deleting the archived logfiles.
Very, very useful. Thanks! I'd love to see it being the default. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com p...@freebsd.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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