RFC: Nagios log rotation/archieving

Ethan Galstad nagios at nagios.org
Mon Aug 6 16:55:14 CEST 2007


Lars Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
> 
>> It *would* be useful to have the naming of the logfiles be configurable, or
>> at least changed to match the default ls sort order.
>> Nagios-%yyyy-%mm-%dd-%id.log. This would group logfiles by year, then by
>> month and then by day, a much more natural grouping when it comes to manual
>> inspection.
> 
> That is what i'm writing about in "Log archieve file naming #1" at the
> beginning of my mail. But maybe your explanation is clearer than mine.
> ;-).
> 
> Lars
> 

Good suggestion.  I'll put this on the todo list for Nagios 4.  Thanks.


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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