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Re: Bug#54810: ought to depend on logrotate



On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:21:23PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 11-Jan-00, 17:13 (CST), Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote: 
> > Let's say cron's maintainer decides to convert
> > /etc/cron.daily/standard to use logrotate, in concordance with the
> > current policy manual.
> 
> Strictly speaking, there are no "log" files managed in
> cron.daily/standard. There are status files that are regenerated daily,
> with backups managed using savelog because it's convenient. I don't
> think logrotate would quite work.

OK, so moving logrotate into important isn't necessary for cron. Which
is good IMHO, the less packages to be moved up like that the better...

SRH
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