[Tfug] Automatic Update?
Bexley Hall
bexley401 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 19 15:08:18 MST 2006
--- Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
> At 11:13 AM 9/19/2006 -0700, you wrote:
> >Why not my original suggestion of just appending
> >`date` to the log file "regularly" (monthly,
> yearly,
> >etc.). Can't cost much more than sending yourself
> >a reminder... (and, if you fail to GET the
> reminder,
> >the log file will still be marked appropriately!)
>
> It wasn't clear how your suggestion of just
> redirecting date (standard date
> output) into the file would result in:
>
> "all entries beyond this one occur in the year xxxx"
>
> being appended to the file. Or were you meaning
> something like:
>
> echo all entries beyond this one occur in the year
> `date +%Y` >> yum.log
Yes, I wasn't trying to be literal. Rather, to
verbosely explain what you would think when
encountering that "message" (suitably decorated
to ensure it stands out easily!) while reviewing
the logs at a later date.
E.g., I have my syslog.conf(5) configured to use
the MARK facility for just that purpose (though
it generates a lot of "noise").
N.B. The *BSD's use newsyslog.conf(5) to do what
I imagine your logrotate tries to do (though I
don't believe it suffers from an "annually" bug :> )
> Then it wasn't clear how logwatch handles this. I
> know my approach, clunky as it is, will work.
Horses for courses. As long as it works for you! :>
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