On Wed, 10.10.12 14:16, Seth Vidal (skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org) wrote:
>On Tue, 09.10.12 22:30, Simo Sorce (simo(a)redhat.com) wrote:
>
>>>>logrotate has time based policies for very good reasons.
>>>
>>>Yeah, because Unix doesn't really allow much else...
>>>
>>Oh come on, stop bashing unix, logrotate could certainly grow a size
>>checking policy if people felt the need, unix is not holding you back,
>>in fact you are building this stuff on a unix-like system.
>
>Ah, Unix cron can start things based on disk space changes? Interesting,
>I wasn't aware of that. I thought it only could start logrotate by time,
>not by disk space changes...
yum info incron
Description : This program is an "inotify cron" system.
: It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator.
: You can use it a similar way as the regular cron.
: The difference is that the inotify cron handles
: filesystem events rather than time periods.
And rsyslog pulls that in? I wasn't aware of that. I am learning new
stuff every day...
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.