About:
NewSyslog is an updated version of a package put together by Theodore Tso of MIT Project Athena (which is included in NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.). It manages the rotation and archiving of log files (primarily those written to by syslogd). This version has a mix of features from all of the other versions, and it has been made more portable than any of the others with the help of GNU Autoconf.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
This is a relatively minor update. It fixes one minor bug in the parsing of timespecs and several portability issues. Signals are displayed symbolically in error messages, and verbose output shows the trim time in local time instead of as a Unix epoch time. New versions of GNU Autoconf and Automake were also used to create this distribution.

Author:
Greg A. Woods [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/newsyslog.html
Changelog:
http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/newsyslog.NEWS.txt

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		Freely Distributable, Freeware
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Internet :: Log Analysis, System :: Archiving, System :: Logging, System :: Systems Administration, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.1	08-Jul-2003	Freely Distributable

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.1	Minor bugfixes	08-Jul-2003 20:47
1.0.103	Minor bugfixes	22-May-2002 01:07
1.0.102	Minor bugfixes	01-Mar-2002 23:28
1.0.101	Minor bugfixes	13-Jan-2002 22:42
1.0.100	Minor bugfixes	18-Aug-2001 01:22
1.0.99	Minor bugfixes	23-Feb-2001 09:00
1.0.98	N/A	02-Dec-2000 01:39

 Comments

[»] Wildcards or directory
by Lord Lundy - May 8th 2003 02:17:54

Have a directory of logs of either unknown names, or "too many to list". In particular from radius that just puts logs under NAS ip. Or http with many virtual hosts.

Would be nice to be able to specify an entire directory, "/path/dir/" or parhaps allow wildcards "/path/dir/*". And have it handle anything that matches. (Naturally knowing to ignore files created by itself *.gz or whatever).

Lundy

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[»] Date in file names
by degradas - Nov 25th 2002 07:52:28

It would be very useful if newsyslog had an option to add date into archived file's name, for example, maillog.2002.11.25.gz instead of maillog.0.gz

I had to switch to another method of log rotation just because of this :/ (very unfortunate, since newsyslog otherwise would be an excellent alternative).

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[»] Feature Request:
by lethar - Feb 15th 2002 22:28:36

The ability to specify a pipe in the syslog.conf would be very useful.

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[»] Re: Feature Request:
by Greg A. Woods - Feb 15th 2002 23:17:37


> The ability to specify a pipe in the
> syslog.conf would be very useful.
Presumably you're thinking of the program usually called 'syslogd', not this one, which is called 'newsyslog'. :-)

(note syslog-ng already has a pipe() driver)


--
Greg A. Woods

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