Re: [Exim] wishlist, or not? log rotation on install

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jonathan Vanasco
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] wishlist, or not? log rotation on install
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:

> it would be kinda nice if exim rotated the old logs on install
>
> ie, if the logfiles that exim was compiled with exist already, they are
> rotated


Why do you want this? I certainly don't want the logs on our hosts
rotated just because I install a new version of Exim. They are rotated
daily so that we can easily search on a per-day basis.

Is this something lots of people want? Is it common? I suspect that
there will be plenty of people on both sides of this one, and therefore
I don't think any change should be made. It is presumably easy enough to
make a script that calls "exicyclog; make install" if you want this.

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