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
Joerg Wunsch suggested to do this to make the functional changes in
the next commit to newsyslog (which were run through the same script)
better visible.
compatibility. : is still the documented non-ambiguous approach. The
algorithm used will correctly parse david.obrien.staff as strrchar() is
used, and in my mind more people would use a ``.'' in the username than
the group name.
Convinced by argument and patch by: sheldonh (with slight changes by me)
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.
PR: docs/6385
2) -n (noaction) does not imply -r (run as non-root), since as of
Rev. 1.12 (ache), -r changes actual behaviour.
3) missing \n from if(noaction) messages.
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.
of copies to save is zero. Incorporate suggested fix with some stylistic
cleanup to make the resulting code more readable.
Submitted-By: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@dol-esa.gov>
1) correct MAX_PID according to system definition.
2) replace fprintf(stderr,...)/perror/exit by 4.4 equivalence.
3) make strings enough larger so they can't overflow: MAXHOSTNAMELEN for
host and MAXPATHLEN for filenames.
4) call execl with correct parameters (compress -> gzip).
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
