config file. If the -C option is specified once, then newsyslog will create
any entries which specify the 'C' option. If -C is given twice, then
newsyslog will create all missing log files. Some of this code comes
from NetBSD, although this implementation does not exactly match theirs.
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch
MFC after: 10 days
the 'N' flag. These were coded in March as revisions 1.55 and 1.56
of newsyslog.c. I intend to MFC all the matching changes next week.
This also reorganizes the description of the 'flags' field to give
list of the valid flags, instead of a long paragraph explaining
each of the possible values.
Obtained from: NetBSD (in spirit at least, for -s and N)
MFC after: 1 week
`J' flag means that newsyslog should wait for previously started compression
jobs to complete before starting a new one for this entry. When it is used
along with the `G' flag, in the case when several logfiles match the pattern
and should be compressed, the newsyslog will compress logs one by one,
ensuring that only one compression job is running at a time.
This prevents newsyslog(8) from overloading system by starting several
compression jobs on big files simultaneously.
Sponsored by: Porta Software Ltd
MFC after: 2 weeks
the specified filename of the log to be rotated is in fact shell glob
pattern. In this case, all files matching this pattern will be rotated
using the same options. Useful in the case when there is no pre-defined
name for the logfiles (e.g. xtradius, samba etc).
Sponsored by: PortaOne Software Ltd
MFC after: 2 weeks
give an example of how to rotate logs at the beginning of the month.
Although they sound the same, since both of them rotate logs at the
beginning of the day, the former ended up taking place on, e.g., July
31 00:00 instead of the expected July 31 23:59. This is contraty to POLA.
Submitted by: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
configurable directory
- implement alternate and more flexible way to specify
logfile rotation time in addition to the ISO 8601
restricted format
- cleanup the source which was a mix of several styles
of persons who maintained it so far, ran through
knfom script got from bde.
Reviewed by: (in part) sheldonh and garyj
Add the much-needed and long-desired ability to force the log rotation
to take place on a specific day or time, and document same. This works
by extending the syntax of the `when' field to allow a restricted
ISO 8601 time specification, and performing the log rotation if newsyslog
is run during the same hour as is specified.
can be specified without the flags field.
Fix bogus "trail" left in parse routine where the code jumps
past the end of the line and wanders into oblivion.
(good thing for apache f.e.) This change is backward compatible with old
newsyslog.conf files.
2) Do not compress log if SIGHUP sending failed for some reason
(f.e. pid file deleted). Newcoming messages will be lost
otherwise.
3) Misc cleanup while I am here.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
imported the newsyslog command from NetBSD - it make the "rotation" of
the logfiles much simpler (it is currently done by "hand" in the
/etc/[daily,weekly,monthly] scripts) - now it will be done by invoking
newsyslog every hour which is very customizable via a
/etc/newsyslog.conf file
