On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:16:48PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:35:44AM +0000, Steve Haslam wrote: > > > 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... > > Logrotate is already in important and cron already does suggest logrotate. *blush* But the fact that I had mailman installed but not logrotate shows that having it in important wasn't enough... Hm, maybe a policy amendment isn't in order. But I do think that in general, packages expecting their logs rotated by logrotate should depend on logrotate. SRH -- Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ steve@arise.demon.co.uk Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer araqnid@debian.org but I won't admit to needing you I'll never say that's true, not to you [sister machine gun]
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