On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:08:24PM +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Hi Fajar, re logrotate and crontab: I was speaking from instinct knowing that crontab and a simple script to do the actual rotation is all that is needed. What I didn't expect was that someone had actually reinvented all the functionality of crontab to create a totally new utility that is much more limited than crontab.
Unfortunately, logrotate is, as implied by your earlier post, a totally separate tool when all that was needed was a small script invoked by cron. My apologies for my earlier post.
Also my apologies to you on behalf of the Linux community for the perpetration of such waste and bloat.
Sadly, that trend is rising, not fading.
Ironically Windows is currently trying to reduce the footprint of their basic package so it will fit better on netbooks. Perhaps we can follow in their footsteps. :-)
Jeff Kinz