Re: disable, rotate=datestamp feature

[Rune Mossige]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

> On 31 Oct, Rune Mossige wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to start using the disable directive to keep an eye on some
> > logfiles, but I would like the rotated logfiles to have a datestamp
> > extention, e.g.
> > 
> > logfile > logfile.YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM
> > 
> > Is this possible to do with the current cfengine version, or is this a
> > feature that needs to be added?
> > 
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> 
> What is wrong with the timestamp on the file? ls -l ?

Nothing wrong with ls -l, I just want logfiles to have the
YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM extention, instead of .[0-9], so that they are not
overwritten (or rolled over) too quickly if I suddently get lots of
entries.

When I think about it, I might get at the same result by setting the
directive as:
disable:
  logfile size=5M rotate=100

and then later on, in tidy, delete any file older than, say, 3 months.

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> Mark
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