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commit c55931df8ddca40c3c0afa393dce7d4bc702eed8
parent f256960e58986fd8b524130bbc435c2d6d748d08
Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:48:58 +0000

man/svlogd.8: add hint on how to manually remove log files

...after the number of log files svlogd should maintain has been reduced.

Diffstat:
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man/svlogd.8
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4
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M
package/CHANGES
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3
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2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/svlogd.8 b/man/svlogd.8
@@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ or more old log files in the log directory, it removes the oldest one.
 Note that this doesn't decrease the number of log files if there are
 already more than
 .I num
-log files.
+log files, this must be done manually, e.g. for keeping 10 log files:
+.P
+ ls \-1 \\@* |sort |sed \-ne '10,$p' |xargs rm
 .SS PROCESSOR
 If
 .B svlogd
diff --git a/package/CHANGES b/package/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+  * man/svlogd.8: add hint on how to manually remove log files after the
+    number of log files svlogd should maintain has been reduced.
+
 1.7.2
 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:13:47 +0000
   * doc/index.html: add list of distributions that are known to include