[sysadmin-discuss] logrotate

[Jason King]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:57 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> Octave Orgeron wrote:
>> 1. We stick with logadm, forget logrotate, and perhaps enhance logadm?
>> 2. We drop logadm and switch to logrotate.
>> 3. Standardize on logadm and make it handle logrotate.conf syntax in addition to the logadm.conf syntax.
>> 4. Standardize on logrotate and make it handle logadm.conf syntax in addition to the logrotate.conf syntax.
>
> and maybe
>
> 5.  Ship logadm as usual.  Put logrotate into the IPS non-core
>     repo for people to pull if desired (with all the caveats and
>     warning comments mentioned in this thread...), but ensure
>     that it does not get installed by default.
>
> The project team needs to consider why we need to invest
> resources into putting this project into core opensolaris.
> I haven't seen any rationale for /why/ we need this - and
> being on a list somewhere isn't sufficient reason stop
> using common sense...

I believe the justification was 'linux familiarity'.  Unfortunately, I
haven't found any sort of discussion in terms of policy or guidelines
around this (if there are, pointers would be welcome).  All I've seen
is 'anything that makes things more like Linux is ok', even though
that's a bit of a vague target -- different Linux distros ship
different stuff.  It ends up at least having the appearance of being
used a trump card over all objections.

If the overriding goal is 'linux familiarity', we can all save a lot
of time and effort and rename nexenta opensolaris and call it done --
by it's nature it's going to have the most 'linux familiarity' of
anything else using opensolaris.  If not, we should decide how much is
enough/too much/too little.

>
> As Richard says, logrotate does not seem to be one of those
> "must have" things whose lack makes OpenSolaris unusable
> compared to Ubuntu.  Yes, it /is/ a "nice to have" convenience,
> and users will be glad that it is easily available and just
> works on OpenSolaris.  But, IMO, it is just desert, and we
> need to focus on the main course.
>
>   -John
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