[Tfug] Automatic Update?

[Bexley Hall]

--- Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:

> At 11:13 AM 9/19/2006 -0700, you wrote:
> >Why not my original suggestion of just appending
> >`date` to the log file "regularly" (monthly,
> yearly,
> >etc.).  Can't cost much more than sending yourself
> >a reminder...  (and, if you fail to GET the
> reminder,
> >the log file will still be marked appropriately!)
> 
> It wasn't clear how your suggestion of just
> redirecting date (standard date
> output) into the file would result in:
> 
> "all entries beyond this one occur in the year xxxx"
> 
> being appended to the file.  Or were you meaning
> something like:
> 
> echo all entries beyond this one occur in the year
> `date +%Y` >> yum.log

Yes, I wasn't trying to be literal.  Rather, to
verbosely explain what you would think when
encountering that "message" (suitably decorated
to ensure it stands out easily!) while reviewing
the logs at a later date.

E.g., I have my syslog.conf(5) configured to use
the MARK facility for just that purpose (though
it generates a lot of "noise").

N.B.  The *BSD's use newsyslog.conf(5) to do what
I imagine your logrotate tries to do (though I
don't believe it suffers from an "annually" bug  :> )

> Then it wasn't clear how logwatch handles this.  I
> know my approach, clunky as it is, will work.

Horses for courses.  As long as it works for you!  :>

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