Re: Followup: Syslog
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:06:51AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > multilog ( http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html ), packaged with
> > Daniel Bernstein's daemontools, is pretty reliable I believe. Unfortunately,
> > it lacks a free license. However, looking at it might be inspiring when
> > working on a logger.
>
> a few things that are mildly annoying about multilog,
[...]
> * there is no easy way to tell multilog to keep all logs (you can
> tell it to keep 9999 log files, but if you hit 10000, it will
> delete the oldest to keep the limit at 9999)
>
> * i have not found a way to get it to automatically zip up an older
> logfile. this is not to say it cannot be done, and i must admit: i
> have not tried very hard
>
Both can be done with multilog using a 'processor', see
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html .
> * you cannot tell multilog when to rotate the logs. multilog rotates
> per file size. so each multilog process may rotate at different times
>
What is bad about this?
Gerrit.
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