SOURCES: logrotate.conf - do log rotation daily and keep 2 weeks.

[Tomasz Pala]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 13:21:38 +0100, Pawel Golaszewski wrote:

> > > First of all - where's rationale for this change?
> 
> Few things:
> - it's easier to compress 5MB file than 35MB. This is significant on 
>   desktops, but on server systems could be too.

It's not.

> - each day is one file. simple.

Each month is one file. simple. :P

> - many services are producing a lot of logs and that was why glen has 

Which one?

> > > This was PLD default for a long time,
> 
> ...we should consider changing it :)

OK - ordinary PLD system (means default configs) produces about 1 MB of
logs each day. Rotating them every day or week doesn't make any sense -
let's change it to rotate monthly for 12 months.

> > > And daily is too frequent for ordinary (i.e. using defaults) system.
> > Agreed.
> 
> And I don't.

And I don't with your don't ;>

> P.S.: Merry Christmas, ho-ho-ho ;)

Marry dies natalis Solis Invicti ;)

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Tomasz Pala <gotar at pld-linux.org>