Circa 2001-Sep-23 10:31:49 +0200 dixit Marc Haber:
: On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:42:06 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel
: <ph10@???> wrote:
: >Eeek. And I worry about logs that get over 1MB...
:
: This brings me around to a question I wanted to ask for ages: Why does
: exim bring its own log rotation script? There are numerous standard
: way to do this available, logrotate being one of the most prominent.
: Why did you re-invent that kind of wheel for exim?
I suspect that at the time Philip was developing exim, there weren't
quite so many standard utilities for rotating logs.
Now, however, there are also so many different "standard" utilities
merely on Linux systems, not to mention the rest of the world, that
it's unfeasible to maintain exim log rotation configurations for all of
them....
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