Re: [webmin-l] Logrotate - Newsyslog

[Freddie C. <fca...@sd...>]

> That file format looks completely different to the one used by
> logrotate unfortunately, so at the moment there is no way you can
> use Webmin to configure newsyslog.

> However, you could install logrotate instead, which looks to be more
> powerful, and is supported by Webmin.

newsyslog(8) is so much nicer to work with, though.  :)  logrotate
uses a separate config file for each log and/or requires several lines
per log, and doesn't always work (I've several systems where I have
not been able to get logrotate to work correctly, especially with
Apache logs).

newsyslog uses a single config file, uses a single line per log file
to be rotated, and does everything needed to rotate logs.  Nothing
more, nothing less.  Just like everything else in FreeBSD (1 config
file, 1 line per whatever, and it just works).

Getting the logrotate module to support newsyslog may take a lot of
work, though, since they are so different.

Added a custom command file editor is a decent "solution" until then.  :)
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