Re: [PATCH] gnu: rottlog: rotate messages daily.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

>> Using the attached patch and the configuration below, rottlog
>> actually rotates /var/log/messages daily.
>
> Woohoo!

:-)

Yeah, made me quite happy too.

>> * gnu/packages/admin.scm (rottlog): Set packdir in etc/rc; fixes rotating.
>> Rename weekly to daily; rotates /var/log/messages daily.
>
> I split it in several patches and pushed part of this.

Great, thanks.

> ‘rottlog’ was looking for config files in OUT/etc, which made it
> impossible for people to configure it.  So in commit
> 268ad34e0eadf8a015798b5c5587aad65b9f3a61 I changed it to look for
> configuration files in /etc/rottlog.
>
> Consequently, running “rottlog” alone won’t work; one has to provide
> /etc/rottlog/{rc,daily} first.  We should have a GuixSD service that
> does that.

Ah, yes configuration was the bit I was wondering about.  A service
that initializes/writes these sounds like a good idea!

Greetings,
Jan

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