Re: svlogd -tt

[Ian Stokes-Rees <i.stokes-rees1@physics.ox.ac.uk>]

Ian.

It is a bit hard to see at a glance what the file names mean for log 
files.  Maybe a sym link to the existing files with the sym link having 
a more descriptive name?

Ian

Gerrit Pape wrote:
> 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.

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