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

[Dale Ghent]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:57 PM, John Plocher wrote:

> 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.

Concur. With ARCs like logrotate coming out of the blue for the sake  
of attaining "Linux familiarity", there's a problem that needs to be  
addressed if this is truly something that Sun feels like it needs to  
persue.

Where is the line being drawn? There are lots of things that one can  
conceivably integrate to make Solaris look like Linux, from benign  
utilities such as logrotate (duplicity with existing Solaris utilities  
be darned) to concepts that are more "out there" but still plausible  
under this banner such as emulating Linux's trash dump of /proc, or  
adding "/dev/hda.. /dev/hdb..." and so on.

I guess what I'm saying is that randomly tossing out ARCs in an  
unstructured way is a messy path to take. The concept of "linux  
familiarity" if it were to continue should be a very tempered one, and  
would benefit at the minimum from some set boundaries and  
expectations. This smells like a OS.org Project to me.

But my own opinion is that if anything in this realm happens, it  
should be more along the lines of "GNU familiarity", which is  
something that has already been discussed a lot here and elsewhere.

/dale