Administrators can now specify a global compression method directly
at the beginning of the newsyslog.conf file, for example:
<compress> none
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Will it be possible to use legacy settings and compress logs using different tools, for example, some files with bzip2, others with xz and a few with zstd ?
I suppose it will work with
<compress> legacy
what I hope will be the default
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I think this is a step in the right direction (having the compression specified in the config file), but I think it needs better integration with the existing flags. For example, there could be a new flag selecting the default as specified with <compress>, replacing J in the default config file lines.
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| 524 | I agree with the classification in the email thread about "legacy" being a time variant classification. What about "pre15" or "v1" or "perlog" (as in "apply the compression settings as specified per log file compression flag") instead? | |