[arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng 3.0.4-2

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 21:53:20 EST 2010


On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Paul Mattal <paul at mattal.com> wrote:
> Please signoff, 1 for each arch.
>
> The only difference is that I've added /var/log/crond.log to the logrotate
> script so that its rotation is now handled when syslog-ng rotates all its
> logs. The benefit of this is that it's coordinated properly with the HUPping
> of syslog-ng, which is the actual creator of this log now that dcron logs to
> syslog.
>
> There is an intended overlap here. In order to ensure smooth migration of
> log rotation, the log will be "double covered" for a while (but logrotate
> detects this and ignores one of them) until I (shortly) push the dcron 4.4-2
> which removes its own logrotate script for /var/log/crond.log.
>
> - P
>

Other log files handled by syslog-ng should also be added to
syslog-ng.logrotate :

/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/uucp.log
/var/log/news.log
/var/log/ppp.log
/var/log/debug.log
/var/log/acpid.log


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