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

James Carlson james.d.carlson at sun.com
Thu Jun 5 04:24:05 PDT 2008


Nicolas Williams writes:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:21:52PM -0700, Jyri Virkki wrote:
> > Having read the thread, I'm still somewhat concerned about the above.
> > 
> > I see the scenario being
> > - Linux-experienced admin (doesn't know about logadm) sees logrotate,
> >   pkg install-s it.
> > - Already knows how to use it so goes ahead and sets it up (doesn't need
> >   to read the manpage)
> 
> "Sets it up" -> edit root's crontab?

Do you mean to say that installing the package doesn't automatically
do that, so the software is usable out of the box?  That'd be a shame.

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