feeping creaturism

[James Morrison]

> >   This firmlink patch should conform to the GCS, and the time
mode works
> > nicely.
> >
> > 2002-03-09  James A. Morrison <ja2morri@uwaterloo.ca>
> >
> >       * firmlink.c: Added the functionality for multiple targets
decided
> >       on by a command line option choosing randomly,
sequencially, or
> >       based on the date/time.

> I am glad to see that you have taken the time to play with some of 
the
> code and begun to understand it.  However, I am not convinced of
the
> general utility of this patch: in my opinion, it is better to avoid
> freeping creaturism.

 Well, this is quite a feature to add.  Personally, I intend on using

this in conjunction with a transdir translator to store my apache
logs.  Transdir[1] will be a stripped down hostmux, that doesn't mux
anything.  So I'll do this
settrans /var/log/apache /hurd/transdir /hurd/filemux --date="%Y-%W"
/home/jim/apache '${file}'

This will store my apache logs in /home/jim/apache, and
/var/log/apache will just be a reference to this weeks logs.  Now if
I can figure out a way to add transparent gunzip to filemux, I will
have found a way to replace all the things I know logrotate does with
translators that do the job better and more accurately.

[1] If anyone has a better name for this idea, I would be happy to
here it.


=====
James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone refering this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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