Log Rotation

[Peter Nixon]

On Fri 18 May 2007, Guy Fraser wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:09 +0200, Jack J Allan wrote:
> > On 5/18/07, Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
> >         Another solution would be to perform logging via syslog(3),
> >         which
> >         absolves radiusd from trapping and handling signals and file
> >         handlers.
> >         Syslog-ng already does this very well -- why duplicate all of
> >         that code?
> >         ~BAS
> >
> >
> > I've certainly looked at that possibility, the problem is that you
> > cannot separate your logging components nicely. I'd like to separate
> > my radius.log, sqltrace, detail logfiles per nas and all that. I'm
> > afraid that syslog can't do that and you'll run out of log facilities
> > very quickly if you decided to do it manually ( e.g. one facility per
> > logfile).
> >
> > I found a workaround (no HUP) so I'm happy.
> >
> > Jack
>
> I have not checked in quite a while, but at one point a while back,
> I suggested using configurable dynamic log file names, like the detail
> files have. I used to use such a beast on a version of Cistron Radius
> that I customized, but I ran into problems trying to make it work
> with FR because if I remember correctly, and it is quite possible I
> do not, there was some kind of problem I ran into where the "Xlate"
> function did not generate what I expected when it had insufficient
> data to resolve the log file "name" due to the type of error. Having
> the configurable logging was low on my list of priorities back then
> and has not become any more important as of now, but it would still
> be a nice feature if their was a way to use defaults using
> "{{variable}:-default}" type entries.

I second this.. But its a low priority.. 

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