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Re: Timezones and archive rotation

To: kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Timezones and archive rotation
From: Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:21:14 +1100 (EST)
Cc: pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1255637196.5607.8.camel@localhost>
----- "Ken McDonell" <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think the way forward here is to change the default, and add a -x
> option to maintain the status quo.  I've looked at the code and this
> will not be hard ... it will take more effort to build the archives
> needed for the QA test.

Beauty, sounds good to me.  Mark & I were talking about creating an
installed /etc/cron.d/pcp file which sets the default log rotate up
etc, out of the box, with that in place I'd imagine 99.99% of users
would be using early-morning log wrapping & would benefit from this
if they're subject to daylight savings.

> Unless I hear a violent objection in the next day or so, I'll do
> this.

I'll run interference, and object to any objections. :)

> On the missing files issue, please let me know if the -t 7 option
> gives
> you the evidence you need to track down what's going wrong ... 

Yep, will do.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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