logrotate [LSARC/2008/359 FastTrack timeout 06/10/2008]

[Mark A. Carlson]

The "we already have X" argument does not apply to
familiarity projects such as this one. If the Linux
developer/admin doesn't find his favorite tool, he
moves on...

-- mark

Octave Orgeron wrote:
> Hmm... we already have logadm to rotate logs in Solaris today. Logcheck would be more interesting. We don't have a built-in utility to scan logs for issues. I have a pkg'd version of logcheck, if anyone is interested.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
> To: Dean Roehrich <dr161460 at sac.sfbay.sun.com>
> Cc: lsarc-ext at sun.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 4:00:21 PM
> Subject: Re: logrotate [LSARC/2008/359 FastTrack timeout 06/10/2008]
>
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:08:19PM -0700, Dean Roehrich wrote:
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>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI
>> This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems
>> 1. Introduction
>>     1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>>      logrotate
>>     1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>>      Author:  Colin Ngam
>>     1.3  Date of This Document:
>>     03 June, 2008
>> 4. Technical Description
>> 1. Background
>>
>>     Logrotate rotates log files and archives them in a central location.
>>
>>     Logrotate is externally maintained Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
>>     Sun's role with this project is to port and monitor the open source
>>     project.  For additional information about the project or originating
>>     community, see [1].  Upstream code changes are not currently needed or
>>     anticipated because the project already compiles and runs under
>>     Solaris and the version being integrated is stable.
>>     
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>> [1] http://www.sunfreeware.com
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> I wonder if by "stable" you actually mean "unmaintained"?  Sunfreeware
> is certainly not the originating community for logrotate, that's just
> somewhere the source file exists.  As Sun's role is to "monitor the open
> source project", do they even know where it is?  The logrotate utility
> doesn't appear to have a "homepage" on the world wide web, being
> maintained in Red Hat's CVS tree only so far as I can see [2].
>
> Ceri
>
> [1] NMFN; see above.
> [2] CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at rhlinux.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS
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