I just noticed that gzip used in savelog and we only would need to change two constants in that script to make it work with bzip2. This can save space. The 2.6 MB syslog file compressed with bzip2 is much smaller: -rw------- 1 root root 148K Feb 9 14:25 syslog.1.bz2 -rw------- 1 root root 589K Feb 9 14:26 syslog.1.compress.Z -rw------- 1 root root 270K Feb 9 14:28 syslog.1.gzipped.gz bzip2 compressed here 40% better than gzip -9 I know its easy enough to change the savelog script but it would be nice to see bzip2 compression as the default.
Zhenlin posted the patch below for this bug on the forum: *** debianutils-1.16.3/savelog Sun Feb 9 17:30:14 2003 --- debianutils-1.16.3/savelog.orig Sun Feb 9 17:29:19 2003 *************** *** 2,9 **** # savelog - save a log file # Copyright (C) 1987, 1988 Ronald S. Karr and Landon Curt Noll # Copyright (C) 1992 Ronald S. Karr - # Slight modifications by Low Zhen Lin <lowzl@hotmail.com>: - # * uses `bzip2' rather than `gzip' # Slight modifications by Ian A. Murdock <imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.edu>: # * uses `gzip' rather than `compress' # * doesn't use $savedir; keeps saved log files in the same directory --- 2,7 ---- *************** *** 71,78 **** # common location export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ! COMPRESS="bzip2 -9f" ! DOT_Z=".bz2" # parse args exitcode=0 # no problems to far --- 69,76 ---- # common location export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ! COMPRESS="gzip -9f" ! DOT_Z=".gz" # parse args exitcode=0 # no problems to far
added into portage in debianutils-1.16.7
