replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 10 18:16:37 UTC 2012




On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> On Tue, 09.10.12 22:30, Simo Sorce (simo at redhat.com) wrote:
>
>>>> logrotate has time based policies for very good reasons.
>>>
>>> Yeah, because Unix doesn't really allow much else...
>>>
>> Oh come on, stop bashing unix, logrotate could certainly grow a size
>> checking policy if people felt the need, unix is not holding you back,
>> in fact you are building this stuff on a unix-like system.
>
> Ah, Unix cron can start things based on disk space changes? Interesting,
> I wasn't aware of that. I thought it only could start logrotate by time,
> not by disk space changes...
>


yum info incron

Description : This program is an "inotify cron" system.
             : It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator.
             : You can use it a similar way as the regular cron.
             : The difference is that the inotify cron handles
             : filesystem events rather than time periods.


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