[Tfug] Automatic Update?

[Brian Masur]

Hi Harry, TFUG,
Since I didn't see anyone else mention it yet...
Gentoo also has logrotate as a package.
If another distro does not you can install it yourself, and like you were 
saying..
Why reinvent the wheel?  I've used logrotate for making backups, not just 
logs.
Anyone interested might google logrotate to find the origins.
I wonder how many linux "fiddlers" out there have tried to write this on 
their own without knowing it has already been written.
Smile...
Brian

>From: Harry McGregor <micros at osef.org>
>Reply-To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>Subject: Re: [Tfug] Automatic Update?
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:07:28 -0700
>
>Why go to that trouble when the logrotate system can do it for you, just
>setup for that log file in /etc/logrotate.d
>
>This is based on Debian, but I am sure that Fedora and RHEL both use
>logrotate as well.
>
>
>                                 Harry
>
>Bexley Hall wrote:
>
> >--- Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I found additional packages that were "updated"
> >>according to the Logwatch
> >>file, packages that were not actually updated.  I
> >>looked more closely at
> >>the yum.log in /var/log and voila - the yum log
> >>doesn't list the year in
> >>the date of the update and Logwatch apparently
> >>assumes the current year.
> >>So, things that were updated last year and listed in
> >>the yum.log file are
> >>being picked up by Logwatch as having been updated
> >>this year.
> >>
> >>I guess the fix is to divide the yum.log up into
> >>years, unless there's a
> >>way to add the year so that Logwatch sees it.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Setup a crontab entry to cat 'date' to the end
> >of the logfile every new year's eve (or, every
> >month if you'd prefer a belts-and-braces approach!)
> >
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