instead of the traditional simple counter.
Using the time-stamp based file-names, once a log file is archived, it
will not change name until it is deleted. This means that many backup
systems will only perform one backup of the archived log file, instead
for performing a new backup of the logfile upon each logfile rotation.
This implementation is separate from the patches in the mentioned PR,
as I wasn't aware of the existence of the PR until after I had
implemented the same functionality as the patches in the PR provide.
Unlike the PR, this new code does honor the 'log count' in
newsyslog.conf so old logfiles are deleted. This new code does not
currently support never deleting the archived logfiles.
PR: bin/29363
MFC after: 3 weeks
Format for the include line in /etc/newsyslog.conf is:
<include> /etc/defaults/newsyslog.conf
Other notes of interest:
Globbing is supported in <include> statements.
Properly detect circular include loop dependencies.
Reviewed by: gad@
Approved by: wes@ (mentor)
MFC after: 2 months
which stops to proceed further, as it is possible that processes which
fails to create PID file get screwed by rotation.
Requested by: stas
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC with: r200806
to proceed anyway as this most likely mean that the process has been
terminated.
PR: bin/140397
Submitted by: Dan Lukes <dan obluda cz>
MFC after: 1 month
they have been rotated. Among other things, use warnx() instead of warn()
for some messages where the value if errno is irrelevant to the problem
being reported.
MFC after: 5 days
cojunction with -C and is used by /etc/rc.d/newsyslog.
I forgot that this was in my perforce tree and not my running system and
thus committed a non-working newsyslog script.
Reported by: des
Pointy hat: brooks
parameter 2 in chmod(2), which is a mode_t (and in turn a __uint_16_t),
it's more likely that it should be defined as an unsigned variable.
This commit should make newsyslog WARNS=6 clean, but don't bump the knob
until I have a universe build.
MFC After: 1 month
the *filename* and not the pid_file(!). Stupid brain-fault on my part.
This could cause a segfault under -neworder if newsyslog had to rotate
multiple files, and later ones had specifed the 'N' flag.
Bug first reported by: le
MFC after: 3 days
processes, and balance that by adding a 10-second delay after all the
processes have been signaled. Also improvement a few messages printed
with `-n' or `-v' processing (mostly signal-related messages).
MFC after: 13 days
files to rotate. The new order will first rotate all files that need
to be rotated, and then send a single signal to each process which
needs to be signaled, and finally it will compress all the files which
were rotated.
This means daemons will be signaled once per run of newsyslog, instead
of once per file rotated. Also, files will be compressed in order of
file-size (smallest to largest). Also, it waits for each file to be
completely compressed before starting the next one (effectively as if
the 'w' flag is specified for all entries in newsyslog.conf). This
avoids the situation of having 10 gzip's going at the same time (each
with a log.0 and a log.0.gz file active), and it also means that file
attributes can be reliably set on files after they are compressed.
NOTE: This commit does define NEWORDER (which you could get rid of if
you really don't trust this), but it does not flip the "-D neworder"
switch. So, at the moment none of these changes happen unless you
request them (perhaps by adding '<debug> neworder' in newsyslog.conf).
PR: bin/25070 inspired some parts of this
Submitted by: parts from bin/25070 done by Helge Oldach
MFC after: 14 days
the newsyslog.conf file. Rename one size-related variable, and move
another one from the stack into conf_entry. Add a routine to change
file-attributes (chown, chmod, chflags), instead of having several
places doing the same sequence of system-calls. A few cosmetic/style
changes.
These should not effect any users. Most of these probably look
pointless, but they are the "insignificant parts" of a much larger
update that I'll be committing soon. Doing these as a separate update
should make that update easier to read.
MFC after: 14 days
that had been written some months ago for other processing. This
should get rid of a few subtle situations where an existing log
file would not exist (for a short time) while it is being rotated.
MFC after: 16 days
"will trim at" message printed when the user requests '-v'. The
previous code would often print the wrong time, such as:
On Sept 22, run: newsyslog -nv /var/log/wtmp
And see: will trim at Mon Sep 1 05:00:00 2003
correct msg: will trim at Wed Oct 1 05:00:00 2003
MFC after: 20 days
would only match a leap year every 400 years. The parseDWM code first
showed up in April 2000, so the first time this bug would cause any
confusion is in Feb 2004.
MFC after: 18 days
