On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:53:50PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 09:37:23PM +0000, Steve Haslam wrote:
> > My position, FWIW, is that packages should depend on logrotate unless
> > they provide a method of rotating the logs when logrotate is not
> > present, in which case they should either recommend or suggest it.
>
> I am not sure I like the idea of packages rotation their logs on their own,
> if logrotate isn't installed; I think of it as, if the logs are going to be
> rotated, that is a job for a general purpose log-rotator, so why should the
> wheel be reinvented with each package?
Packages already rotate logs on their own: sysklogd, exim,
apache... It's part of how I expect Debian packages to work. Is this a
good thing? Maybe, maybe not.
> So to my way of thinking, no logs should be rotated if there isn't a
> logrotate package installed. If there is one or not is up to the
> administrator, though I strongly suggest one...
So all packages that rotate their logs "manually" using savelog should
convert to logrotate... hmm...
Also, there's the fact that if I installed logrotate in order to get
package X's logs rotated, why should I suddenly get package Y's logs
rotated as well? I don't think the presence/absence of a package as
this type of configuration is a good idea.
SRH
--
Steve Haslam, Production Engineer, Excite UK steve.haslam@excitehome.net
i sit and stare at the gun pointed at my head
and think about all the possibilities
Attachment:
pgpkZWykHCnag.pgp
Description: PGP signature