[sysadmin-discuss] logrotate [LSARC/2008/359 FastTrack timeout 06/10/2008]

[Ralf Weber]

Moin!

On Jun 6, 2008, at 05:57 , John Plocher 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.
At least the last is IMHO a bad idea as logadm.conf shouldn't be  
edited (I now you can but then you are responsible for errors) with a  
text editor but instead manipulated by the logadm command line tool. I  
see this and other tools that behave this way in Solaris as a good way  
forward, using logrotate or logadm with plain text file for  
configuration IMHO would be a step backwards. Logadm works, we got  
used to it, so why change it?

>> 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.
That's a possibility. Choice always is good, but it shouldn't be  
default and if the new packaging system (haven't looked into it yet)  
supports multiple software repositories it maybe would be a good idea  
to do a linux compatibility repository and put it in there.

So long
-Ralf
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Ralf Weber
e: opensolaris at fl1ger.de