Question regarding logreport and syslog-ng

[Francis J. Lacoste]

On mer, 2003-05-07 at 07:38, Joost van Baal wrote:
> [...]
>
> A simple shell script will get you going.  Using lr_cron(1) will be a
> bit though, I'm afraid.  And likely, your tweaking will not survive an
> upgrade to forthcoming Lire 1.3...  (Hm, perhaps Lire 1.3 lr_cron should
> allow shell expansion in $log...)
> 

That could be fixed easily by using perl's glob() on the $log value in
the new lr_cron.

> [...]
>
> Lire 1.3's store functionality will very likely be interesting for your
> setup, btw.
> 

Unfortunately, not that much. The new lr_store command is the primitive
operation around which specific archival scenario could be built. But in
the 1.3 release, it's just that: a primitive. So it's not a real gain
from your mkdir and cp in a custom a shell scripts.

We lacked the time to develop a UI to it intergrated to lr_config.


Francis J. Lacoste

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