Logrotate RFE (2)

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 22:55, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> Logrotate is the program called by cron to rename and expire log
> files.  Ruedinger Oertel at SUSE (ro at 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.  

I was seeking a such thing and would love to test it! However I see a
small problem with it - webalizer or whatever log analyzer expects to
find rotated logs as <log>.[1..x] will fail, but it's not that hard
to make symlinks to workaround this. Is this done?

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