[NTLUG:Discuss] Logrotate...

[brian@pongonova.net]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:16:09PM -0600, Fred James wrote:
> The fourth tenet of "The UNIX Philosophy" (Mike Gancarz) is "Choose 
> portability over efficiency", and I face a fair number of non Red Hat 
> systems.  I could spend my time making them all BASH (and perhaps Red 
> Hat) compatible, but the owners would want justification, and if any of 
> the critical software failed, the first thing support wants to know is 
> what changed - I like "logrotate" but I don't think I'll port it.

Maybe newsyslog, then?  It's been around since the 80's, probably can find the
source code.  I know it's part of the OpenBSD distro...

  --Brian