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

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Mon Dec 24 22:31:17 CET 2007


On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:09:55PM +0100, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 15:05:30 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Monday 24 of December 2007, blues wrote:
> > > Author: blues                        Date: Mon Dec 24 12:34:17 2007 GMT
> > > Module: SOURCES                       Tag: HEAD
> > > ---- Log message:
> > > - do log rotation daily and keep 2 weeks.
> > 
> > It's too short period :-(
> 
> First of all - where's rationale for this change? This was PLD default
> for a long time, please don't make blues-PLD default.
> 
> > 2 months would be great, 1 month is +- ok but 2 weeks it too short.
> 
> And daily is too frequent for ordinary (i.e. using defaults) system.

Agreed.
logrotate's default is rotate 4 weekly.
Replacing it distribution-wide with significantly different private
configuration without strong rationale is not acceptable.


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