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

[Randy Fishel]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Mark A. Carlson wrote:

> 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

  It would apply if the tool in question conflicted with an existing 
tool, and I believe a conflict exists (it could well be that both 
tools will be asked to rotate the same logfile).  So it is the 
responsibility of the project team to describe or document the 
interaction between logadm(1m), and logrotate.

	---- Randy

> 
> 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.
>     
> 
>  [1] http://www.sunfreeware.com
>     
> 
>  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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