From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: compressing rotated logfiles
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:04:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060209030443.GD357@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602081208480.5555@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com>
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On 08/02/06 Charlie Brady said:
> Since I assume that you are doing this on linux, I'd suggest that you use
> inotify to watch the log directory and do renames when svlogd has finished
> its post-processing.
>
> Perl API is here:
>
> http://www.edoceo.com/creo/inotify/perl-inotify.php
Well, I was hoping of a way built-in to the tool, but I guess none is
available. The simplest solution would seem to be a simple nightly cron to
perform the compression and thus renaming, since it's not vital that the
rotated file be compressed immediately.
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein
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2006-02-08 16:40 Michael P. Soulier
2006-02-08 17:10 ` Charlie Brady
2006-02-09 3:04 ` Michael P. Soulier [this message]
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