[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node] Compress all rotated logs.

[Perry Myers]

On 05/27/2009 10:58 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> Removes the delaycompress line so that every rotation is compressed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darryl L. Pierce<dpierce at redhat.com>
> ---
>   logrotate/ovirt-logrotate.conf |    3 +--
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/logrotate/ovirt-logrotate.conf b/logrotate/ovirt-logrotate.conf
> index 8747f59..8b89a2d 100644
> --- a/logrotate/ovirt-logrotate.conf
> +++ b/logrotate/ovirt-logrotate.conf
> @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
> -/var/log/ovirt*.log {
> +/var/log/*log {
>       rotate 3
>       compress
> -    delaycompress
>       missingok
>       size 1M
>       create

Wouldn't it be better to set the global compress option rather than 
removing delaycompress?

i.e. /etc/logrotate.conf

>  see "man logrotate" for details
> # rotate log files weekly
> weekly
>
> # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
> rotate 4
>
> # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
> create
>
> # use date as a suffix of the rotated file
> dateext
>
> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
> #compress

Perry