Logrotating single-issue files
by Nicolas Mailhot
[re-sending as subscribed user ]
Hi,
I'm battling with a few apps that create uniquely-named traces/logs in
a logdir (typically using PID / date or a sequence number as a unique
identifier). I naively though it might be possible to use logrotate to
compress old traces and remove them after a while.
The problem is of course once the files have been rotated once nothing
will recreate the original files so they'll be stuck in first rotation
forever (of course one might tell logrotate to create empty new files
after compression but that means filling the disk with empty files -
plus gziped empty files are *not* zero-sized anymore).
I've been trying various workarounds such as creating empty foo.x.gz
files in prerotate and removing them in postrotate but it seems
prerotate is not even entered when pattern files are not present. So I'm
stuck - it seems logrotate can not handle this case and I'll have to
cook up my own cron script.
Anyone got an idea ? Is the modified SuSE logrotate some people have
been talking about able to cope with this ?
Cheers,
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Nicolas Mailhot
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Nicolas Mailhot
20 years, 7 months
Intro, and userhelper question
by Alastair Neil
Hello
I am Alastair Neil, a lapsed physicist and currently unix admin for IT&E
labs at George Mason University. I've been using linux since late '93,
slackware and then redhat since 96 or so.
An issue we have with some of our redhat systems is co-management where
I retain root access but create an account with admin privileges. All
easy enough to do with sudo. However, the desire for access to the gui
tools, again relatively easy enough to change the authorised account for
the tools in /etc/security/console.apps, the problem is that now I have
to remember the ladmin account password to access the apps. I would
rather be able to always be granted access with the root password.
It seems there are two ways to approach this, allow userhelper to have a
list of authorised users, possibly selected from a dropdown list in
consolehelper or modify pam to check the root password if the user
password does not match.
I modified pam in RH8 to do this because I liked the ability to unlock
screensavers with the root passwd ala HPUX, but I noted that
xscreensaver in Ximian allows this and as far as I can see it is not a
pam level change.
Does anyone think these modifications are a good idea and if so what is
the preference? Or perhaps in my ignorance I am reinventing the wheel?
--
Dr. Alastair Neil
Unix Systems Administrator
IT&E Labs
George Mason University
(703) 993-3953
20 years, 7 months
straw rpms
by seth vidal
Hi all,
Straw: http://www.nongnu.org/straw/ - a gnome rss newsfeed aggregation
tool is packaged up some.
You can get rpms (in a yum repo) from here:
http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/RPMS/straw/
These might be missing a dep or two in the Requires: field of straw, let
me know what breaks, but if they corrupt your system in hideous ways
it's not my fault even a little. :)
enjoy.
-sv
20 years, 7 months
Waste of time... (aka. Trademarks)
by Stan Bubrouski
Hey,
Why is that whenever I've looked in my Inbox this weekend it has been
full of this trademark crap. I've read over some of the messages, but I
think I can speak for many people when I say: just get off it.
Many of the large and small companies who contribute to opensource have
patents, trademarks, etc... but they are used in a way that they are not
a nuisance to developers or users. They have spent time and money to
fund this 'Free Software' we use today and its time some of you
ungrateful pricks realize this and move on.
Fedora Core 1 was just released, and there is plenty to be done before
the next release. And there are plenty of bugs left out there that the
community could help with, so could attention please be refocused to the
issues this list and project were meant to involve?
-sb
20 years, 7 months
OpenOffice i18n pack.
by Erçin EKER
Hi all,
Isn't it better to provide i18n files in seperate packages
(OOo-1.1.0-i18n-tr_TR.rpm for turkish) instead of one huge, space killer
pack? in Mandrake it's so and i think its better.
20 years, 7 months
Fedora / RH 9 iso's
by Devin Quince
I am having serious issues burning disk 2 of either Fedora or RH 9. I can
successfully burn 1 and 3, but not 2. Any ideas?
Devin
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20 years, 7 months
Cached File system for use over the WAN
by Bezalel, Yaakov
Hi Fellows,
Is there any current project or planned project that supports file
system access over
the WAN so that any access to a file on a remote server, will result in
a file copy
to a local cache on the requesting system, and all further requests for
that
file, will be provided from the local cache, unless the file was
modified.
For now I am discussing Read Only access on the remote client.
I think that I read of a future development for kernel 2.6 that includes
"cachefs" as a general
cached file system mechanism that can be incorporated within other file
system implementations.
For now I've since those options, but they do not seem as close to
"GA"...
http://www.inter-mezzo.org/
http://shfs.sourceforge.net/
Thanks,
Jack.
Yaakov Bezalel, GCIH
Computer Associates
Manager, Development Information Technology Israel
Tel: +972 3 6450072
Fax: +972 3 5480166
Pager: +972 3 6107199
Mobile: +972 53 994579
mailto:yaakov.bezalel@cai.com
20 years, 7 months
unsubscribing
by xspace
anyone know how to unsubscribing from this list i dont know who adds me
to the fedora-devel-list > im a happy slackware user
20 years, 7 months
Startmenu not allways in correct language..
by felix＠enternett.no
Hi all!
Successfully installed Fedora Core 1, but I'm having problems with the startmenu.
When I choose nynorsk (nn) as language, the menu appears in english. This goes for
GNOME and KDE alike. It seems that the rest of GNOME and KDE is more or less
translated..
Is this a bug, or is the translation missing? Is there a way I could fix it?
Felix
20 years, 7 months
