Bug 71381

Summary:	Logrotate with dates
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ole Tange <bugs.gentoo.org>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) <dang>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Ole Tange 2004-11-16 05:52:39 UTC

Logrotates rotates files as numbered where 1 is the newest, 2 is the next to
newest. This makes sense a lot of situations. In other situations it would be
nicer if the numbering was a date (eg. YYYYMMDD). If you make incremental
backups then this will save a lot of space.

There is already a patch for it. 
http://www.devil-linux.us/pub/devel/sources/1.3/logrotate-3.6.6-dateext.dif.bz2
It is, however, not compatible with 3.6.5.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2005-05-18 00:45:54 UTC

this appears to have been dropped along the way.

Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-24 14:10:33 UTC

dateext is included in 3.7.1