Logrotate RFE (2)

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 16:27, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm also a little skeptical if this is a good feature. And not just 
> because I would have to hack my beautiful rotation-handling routines in 
> epylog. :)

    This can be solved easily with symlinks I think, right?

> 
> Can someone describe the actual benefits?
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Konstantin ("Icon") Ryabitsev
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> 
> 

    I see at least 3:
	- you get better idea when the logfile was last used
	- can be sorted easily (instead of log.1 log.10 log.11 log.2 ...)
	- rsync/whatever will save a lot of traffic.
    This is enough for me, if you need more I guess you can find out why
SuSE have implemented it.
    Maybe it would be better to have this as an option first...


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