On Tue, 8 May 2001 13:37:49 -0600, Keven Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I don't suppose the concept of circular files comes to posix :)
>
>Maybe an enhancement is in order for rolling logfiles that change on a
>weekly/monthly/size=xxxx
>basis as some Windows apps do, and of couse MPE!

Actually, on (L)inux systems there is a "cron" task known as "logrotate".
The task script calls a program of the same name passing a log filename as
a parameter, the program in turn purges the "oldest" rotated logfile &
renames the current/prior (rotated) files [up to 4, generally] as
logfile.1, logfile.2, etc.  This would give you the daily/weekly/monthly
log rotation, but not neccessarilly the "on size>=xxxx" rotation.

Tom

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