Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

  What process does newsyslog use for rotating your log file(s)?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kelly Jones" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:33 AM
Subject: [NMLUG] newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?


> newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file,
> messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc.
>
> This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:
>
> zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz
>
> and found stuff, they may run it the next day and get different
> results because the file is now messages.5.gz
>
> Improving my cow-orkers intelligence would be the ideal solution, but
> has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files
> messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a constant
> name that doesn't change and then delete them after how many ever
> days?
>
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