Perl newsyslog
newsyslog is a faithful Perl rewrite of the MIT newsyslog utility, with a number of features taken from the FreeBSD and NetBSD variants of newsyslog. It archives log files based on size, date or interval, and can optionally compress archives with gzip or bzip2. Complete documentation is available via "perldoc newsyslog.pl".
| Tags | Utilities Systems Administration Logging Archiving Internet Log Analysis |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | Unix |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 14 Sep 2005 06:39
Changes: This release focused on adding the ability to truncate logs in place for daemons that can't be sent a signal and/or don't deal well with logs being changed from under them. Also included in this release was a minor fix for an edge case were a first historical log file was not being compressed if newsyslog was not run by the superuser. The debug output was enhanced, and minor changes were made to the comments and documentation.
- 03 Jan 2004 04:45
Changes: This version fixes a minor bug that caused logs to be archived incorrectly if run more than once in an hour. It also tidies up the documentation and copyright statements.
- 17 Feb 2003 18:14
Changes: Minor fixes.
