Bug#281646: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#281646: bug in logtail regarding command line options

maks attems debian at sternwelten.at
Fri Nov 19 17:26:40 UTC 2004


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:

> * maximilian attems <debian at sternwelten.at> [2004-11-18 10:41]:
> 
>  Are you sure you understood him correctly? I guess you misunderstood
> him, I think the original version in fact _was_ correct.

thanks alfie for your double-check,
i may reread the thread.
 
>  Your change doesn't make sense to me because logtail insists on the -f
> switch, so putting it in [] is wrong, this is also what john said. He
> talked about that -f was _formerly_ optional but isn't any longer, so
> the (not anymore) current manpage *is* (was) correct in that respect.

the -f args is required since implementation,
code back in may was not explicit about it, but didn't work without it.
anyway it doesn't make sense to make it optional.

what changed was that before logtail guessed it's args out of their nr
like that:
logtail /var/log/foo.log /var/lib/logcheck/offset.var.log.foo.log

>  Btw., it is strange that the options are the only places where the \fX
> notation is used -- I'll change this to constant typesetting.
> 
>  Please revert your changes, they were wrong.

thanks for doing it!!
 
> > i'll add soon a News.Debian item for logtail, so that the changed
> > interface gets better documanted for the upgrade path.
> 
>  That reminds me, we wanted to move the NEWS.Debian into the debian
> subdirectory, not have it in the general package....

yup, it would be cool to have a
News.Debian-logtail
News.Debian-logcheck
and maybe sometime later a logcheck-database file.
 
--
maks





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