Re: Logrotate RFE (2)

[Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com>]

Keith Lofstrom <keithl kl-ic com> writes:

> Logrotate is the program called by cron to rename and expire log
> files.  Ruedinger Oertel at SUSE (ro suse de) has some patches that
> enhance the basic Redhat logrotate with "dateext".  This allows a
> dated log file extension rather than a numbered one, for example 
> /var/log/messages.20031029 .  The old logfiles do not get renamed,
> just discarded after they get too old.  This is a lot easier on
> rsync, and it also is easier to administer.  

Note: These comments are not well researched... yet, but only a
suggestion to pursue...

I think they do get renamed... like:
 somelog   becomes somelog.0
 somelog.0 becomes somelog.1
 etc

Up to whatever number logrotate.conf is set to rotate `some.log'
Seems like at each hop ... the file would have to be exactly the same
size as its predecessor for this to effect rsync.

> What are the proper steps to get these patches folded into the main
> development path for Fedora Core?  I mentioned this on this list in
> October with a few positive comments, and submitted an RFE to bugzilla:

Are we really sure this is such a good idea?  I don't see any real
advantage over the old way.  And I'm probably not the only one who has
home-made tools that depend on the current naming system.

Seems like adding the date stamp is only dubbling the info already
available in long ls output.