Re: newsyslog(8) patch for both size and time checks

On Thursday 14 May 2009 20:48:55 Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 9:57 PM +0200 5/13/09, Mel Flynn wrote:
> >On Wednesday 13 May 2009 00:29:36 Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >>  If compatibility is essential, perhaps we could
> >>  add a new flag to control this behavior.  (I would
> >>  argue for changing the default and providing a flag
> >>  to obtain the old behavior.)
> >
> >Fine on the flag, maybe mergemaster could be a little more assisting in
> > this case, since I'm not looking forward to "just adding a flag". Like
> > mergemaster -p could auto-upgrade the lines that have both columns with
> > values?
>
> Somewhere on one of my machines, I started on a update which made
> it pay attention to multiple lines, and "or" those.  So:
>
> /var/log/dhcpd			640  5     5000	*	JC
> /var/log/dhcpd			 "   "     *	_at_T00	JC
>
> would mean "rotate if either condition is true".  My thinking was
> that I might also like to:
>
> /var/log/dhcpd			640  5     1000	_at_T00	JC
> /var/log/dhcpd			 "   "     5000	*	JC
>
> That would say that I *generally* prefer that the log is rotated at
> midnight, but if something goes wild during the day then let's start
> rotating them faster.

Thanks for your work on this. This looks like the best solution to me and 
clear to read.
-- 
Mel