Re: svlogd -tt

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:00:06PM +0200, Henrik Heil wrote:
> i read the thread about the svlogd -t switches some weeks ago and though 
>  i am using -tt (UTC) happily i am missing the feature to have the 
> rotated logfiles with UTC-names instead of @TAI-names.
> 
> Is there a drawback to make this an option?
> The order of the logfiles would be preserved, selecting logfiles with 
> wildcards would be easy.
> 
> I cannot comment on pro/contra TAI itsself but i think one who decides 
> not to have TAI-timestamps in the logfiles would prefer UTC-filenames 
> for the rotated files too.
> 
> What do you think?

When making it a runtime option, there must be a decision whether svlogd
shall maintain two different sets of files in the log directory, or
filename conversion should be done.

I'm not eager to add this option to svlogd, but would be interested in
the opinion of other people, and maybe a patch, though.

Regards, Gerrit.