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62 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bryan Drewery
0fb1b79f4d Make it more explicitly clear that -t will not change filename.
MFC after:	3 days
2014-09-23 13:58:39 +00:00
Bryan Drewery
b39df8fe2d - Include /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* and /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/* by
default for newsyslog(8).

  The /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d will give packages an opportunity to
  install a default configuration to handle their own log files.

MFC after:	2 weeks
Relnotes:	yes
2014-05-20 03:00:20 +00:00
Mark Johnston
468d206524 Have -n imply -r, since dry-run mode obviously doesn't require root
privileges.

Approved by:	rstone (co-mentor)
MFC after:	1 week
2013-01-03 16:12:48 +00:00
Joel Dahl
8972c8b6a5 Minor spelling fixes. 2012-06-03 11:29:48 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
b17e9548f8 Sync manpage's SYNOPSIS with program's usage. 2011-03-09 17:07:36 +00:00
Martin Matuska
c61aa7e8b3 Use correct alphabetical order for xz(1) in SEE ALSO section
of newsyslog manpages.

Reported by:	maxim
MFC after:	3 weeks
2011-01-31 11:30:26 +00:00
Martin Matuska
d90914ca73 Add xz(1) support to newsyslog.
Rewrite and simplify logfile compression code.

Approved by:	gad
MFC after:	3 weeks
2011-01-31 10:57:54 +00:00
Brian Somers
318a43da85 Add a -S switch to override the default syslog pid file. This can be useful
if syslogd's -P switch or a syslogd alternative is being used.

MFC after:	3 weeks
2010-07-23 09:11:47 +00:00
Simon L. B. Nielsen
872e964d07 Add support for creating the archived log filenames using a time-stamp
instead of the traditional simple counter.

Using the time-stamp based file-names, once a log file is archived, it
will not change name until it is deleted.  This means that many backup
systems will only perform one backup of the archived log file, instead
for performing a new backup of the logfile upon each logfile rotation.

This implementation is separate from the patches in the mentioned PR,
as I wasn't aware of the existence of the PR until after I had
implemented the same functionality as the patches in the PR provide.
Unlike the PR, this new code does honor the 'log count' in
newsyslog.conf so old logfiles are deleted.  This new code does not
currently support never deleting the archived logfiles.

PR:		bin/29363
MFC after:	3 weeks
2010-07-22 11:23:18 +00:00
Ulrich Spörlein
0b31f1f731 mdoc: move remaining sections into consistent order
This pertains mostly to FILES, HISTORY, EXIT STATUS and AUTHORS sections.

Found by:	mdocml lint run
Reviewed by:	ru
2010-05-13 12:08:11 +00:00
Xin LI
ccc28f774a Add a new option, -P, which reverts newsyslog(8) to the old behavior,
which stops to proceed further, as it is possible that processes which
fails to create PID file get screwed by rotation.

Requested by:	stas
MFC after:	2 weeks
X-MFC with:	r200806
2010-01-20 01:07:38 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
9d73fabda7 Markup fixes.
Approved by:	re (blanket)
2005-06-14 12:26:36 +00:00
Brooks Davis
deea909a70 Add the -N option to not rotate any files. This is to be used in
cojunction with -C and is used by /etc/rc.d/newsyslog.

I forgot that this was in my perforce tree and not my running system and
thus committed a non-working newsyslog script.

Reported by:	des
Pointy hat:	brooks
2005-03-03 15:47:32 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
35da865ad7 Add a HISTORY section.
PR:	75282
2005-02-24 06:03:31 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
0227791b40 Expand *n't contractions. 2005-02-13 22:25:33 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
5c8e5f2462 Fixed xrefs. 2005-01-21 10:35:40 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
59a3c79da6 Sort sections. 2005-01-18 20:02:45 +00:00
Brooks Davis
842ba60ee2 Add a new -d argument which is used to specify an alternate root for log
files similar to DESTDIR in the BSD make process.  This only affects log
file paths not config file (-f) or archive directory (-a) paths.
2004-10-04 23:35:13 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
07bfccd71e Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:13:00 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
ef4b3aa2e3 Remove information about the configuration file.
Add an Xref to newsyslog.conf.5 and bzip2.1.
2004-03-11 04:32:16 +00:00
Garance A Drosehn
28045703cc Add a -C (create) option for newsyslog, and a 'C' flag for entries in the
config file.  If the -C option is specified once, then newsyslog will create
any entries which specify the 'C' option.  If -C is given twice, then
newsyslog will create all missing log files.  Some of this code comes
from NetBSD, although this implementation does not exactly match theirs.

Reviewed by:	freebsd-arch
MFC after:	10 days
2003-04-27 23:37:31 +00:00
Garance A Drosehn
bc6c007686 Document support for the new 'U' flag, which was implemented back in March
as revision 1.64 of newsyslog.c.  I plan to MFC these changes next week.

MFC after:	1 week
2003-04-24 20:50:01 +00:00
Garance A Drosehn
3d3e9b01a1 Document support for the new -s and -R command-line options, and
the 'N' flag.  These were coded in March as revisions 1.55 and 1.56
of newsyslog.c.  I intend to MFC all the matching changes next week.
This also reorganizes the description of the 'flags' field to give
list of the valid flags, instead of a long paragraph explaining
each of the possible values.

Obtained from:	NetBSD (in spirit at least, for -s and N)
MFC after:	1 week
2003-04-24 01:34:40 +00:00
Garance A Drosehn
356e4049da Document support for the <default> entry, which was implemented in
revision 1.50 of newsyslog.c , back in February.  I intend to MFC
those changes soon.

MFC after:	4 days
2003-04-23 21:26:12 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
57bd0fc6e8 english(4) police. 2002-12-27 12:15:40 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
bffa911730 Add a new W' flag, that when used in conjunction with the Z' flag or the
`J' flag means that newsyslog should wait for previously started compression
jobs to complete before starting a new one for this entry.  When it is used
along with the `G' flag, in the case when several logfiles match the pattern
and should be compressed, the newsyslog will compress logs one by one,
ensuring that only one compression job is running at a time.

This prevents newsyslog(8) from overloading system by starting several
compression jobs on big files simultaneously.

Sponsored by:	Porta Software Ltd
MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-12-15 19:28:02 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
f2562be03e - Allow comments to be placed at the end of configuration line.
Sponsored by:   Porta Software Ltd
Approved by:    re
MFC after:      2 weeks
2002-12-11 01:19:56 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c041c1e0d9 mdoc(7) police: markup fixes.
Approved by:	re
2002-11-27 15:31:08 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
2e01a2be1e Add a new newsyslog.conf flag - 'G', which if set tells newsyslog(8) that
the specified filename of the log to be rotated is in fact shell glob
pattern. In this case, all files matching this pattern will be rotated
using the same options. Useful in the case when there is no pre-defined
name for the logfiles (e.g. xtradius, samba etc).

Sponsored by:	PortaOne Software Ltd
MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-11-14 08:43:07 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
490d5836b5 The .Nm utility 2002-07-14 14:47:15 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
e12f0d2fac Add the ability to Bzip2 your logs.
PR:		27901
Submitted by:	Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> (stylistic changes by me)
2001-07-30 15:17:17 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
9fb54cb322 Note the equivalence of certain time formats. 2001-07-19 15:52:02 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
5d88e21a2a Instead of giving an example of rotating logs at the end of the month,
give an example of how to rotate logs at the beginning of the month.
Although they sound the same, since both of them rotate logs at the
beginning of the day, the former ended up taking place on, e.g., July
31 00:00 instead of the expected July 31 23:59.  This is contraty to POLA.

Submitted by:	Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
2001-07-19 11:18:42 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
f247324df7 Remove whitespace at EOL. 2001-07-15 08:06:20 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
1818ea96a7 Fix a grammar bogon. 2001-04-02 06:21:13 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
610a5778c5 mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes. 2001-02-01 16:44:04 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
e97407b4f2 mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 20:10:44 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
78ae26252e Allow user to specify which logs to rotate 2000-05-11 10:17:54 +00:00
Hellmuth Michaelis
70fa0440ad - implement logfile archivation to a separate, user
configurable directory
- implement alternate and more flexible way to specify
  logfile rotation time in addition to the ISO 8601
  restricted format
- cleanup the source which was a mix of several styles
  of persons who maintained it so far, ran through
  knfom script got from bde.

Reviewed by: (in part) sheldonh and garyj
2000-04-04 08:50:01 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
f2e366a105 Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.
2000-03-01 14:09:25 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
a39d9a0c5a .Nm corrections 1999-11-27 16:57:27 +00:00
Peter Wemm
97d92980a9 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:35:59 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
d00fc946ed Correctly refer to the companion program rather than as "chown".
Clean up wording a little (like I have any idea what real English looks like...)
1999-07-28 04:28:05 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
63b5983b9e Syntax for user/group is changed from "user.group" to "user:group" to be
consistant with chown(8).
1999-06-28 03:15:02 +00:00
Chuck Robey
06497d232b Fix description of size, it's in kilobytes, not bytes. 1999-04-10 15:09:07 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
e288508dc3 jkoshy forgot up update the heading date on the man page. 1999-01-28 19:56:05 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
ad088da187 Note that the 'owner.group' field is optional in the config file.
PR:		docs/9602
Submitted by:	Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.freebsd.org>
1999-01-27 04:27:49 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
8fba304b43 A slight bit of code and doco cleanup, but mostly:
Add the much-needed and long-desired ability to force the log rotation
to take place on a specific day or time, and document same.  This works
by extending the syntax of the `when' field to allow a restricted
ISO 8601 time specification, and performing the log rotation if newsyslog
is run during the same hour as is specified.
1999-01-22 19:38:39 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
dc55fe4c05 Add optional config file field: signal number to send (defaulted to HUP)
F.e. apache restarts less agressively  on USR1 then on HUP
1998-06-09 18:24:04 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
28a9b05b87 Arg! Someone fixed the synopsis in -stable's newsyslog.8, but not
in -current.  However, they fixed both the ordering and the missing -F
flag.  Merge from 22 and fix ordering here, too.
1998-05-10 19:04:06 +00:00