Re: Log rotation

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 15:19:29 -0500,
Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >
> >I can see their problem with making a dependency to all of apache or
> >including
> >multilog in their distribution. But they probably could include something
> >that is only a logger either using some project that is only a logger or
> >splitting out the logger that is bundled with apache. Then it wouldn't
> >be unreasonable to make a dependency for postgres requiring that logging
> >rpm. Other services could also make use of this logging package as well.
> >
>
> Yes that would be nice. I have no idea how difficult it would be to
> extricate the logrotate program from Apache. I also don't know if there
> would be any license restrictions, would we be able to redistribute it as
> an independently package? I don't know the answer.

I was suggesting this as something a distro maintainer (such as Redhat)
could do. I think that the postgres developers shouldn't be spending
time doing this. They should be just suggesting some possibilities
in the admin part of the documentation.