[Logcheck-devel] BUG - logtail2 failing if bzip2 is used

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Tue Sep 11 05:53:24 UTC 2007


On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:41:32AM +0200, Michał Jęczalik wrote:
> logtail 1.2.60. logtail2 has a hardcoded '.gz' suffix during various 
> checks of rotated archive logfiles, but if you use bzip2 for compressing 
> them, it fails, of course.

Which standard compression scheme can be configured to use .bz2? What
keeps you from implementing your own scheme?

I'd like to keep the compression scheme detection code as easy as
possible, it's ugly enough that one needs to guess how a given log is
rotated.

Greetings
Marc

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