Re: Unified log handling
Previously Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> I notice that many (most) packages that have log files use savelog in
> cron files instead of using logrotate.d. Is there a reason for this?
Yes, they're buggy. Section 11.8 of the policy document strongly
recommends using logrotate.
> want to reccomend its use as a Debian standard and figure out why many
> maintainers have elected to use their own cron jobs instead.
Probably because they have been rotating logfiles for much longer
then we have had logrotate in the distribution.
Wichert.
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