| From 3e2cfa88b6538bb0fee3d9a6e99622055d05ac4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> |
| Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:14:37 -0800 |
| Subject: [PATCH] Update the manual |
| |
| Update the manual for rotating on different filesystems. |
| |
| Upstream-Status: Pending |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> |
| |
| --- |
| logrotate.8.in | 10 ++++------ |
| 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) |
| |
| diff --git a/logrotate.8.in b/logrotate.8.in |
| index 98fea91..70b4c44 100644 |
| --- a/logrotate.8.in |
| +++ b/logrotate.8.in |
| @@ -202,12 +202,10 @@ at all (use with caution, may waste performance and disk space). Default is 0. |
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| .TP |
| \fBolddir \fIdirectory\fR |
| -Logs are moved into \fIdirectory\fR for rotation. The \fIdirectory\fR must be |
| -on the same physical device as the log file being rotated, unless \fBcopy\fR, |
| -\fBcopytruncate\fR or \fBrenamecopy\fR option is used. The \fIdirectory\fR |
| -is assumed to be relative to the directory holding the log file |
| -unless an absolute path name is specified. When this option is used all |
| -old versions of the log end up in \fIdirectory\fR. This option may be |
| +Logs are moved into \fIdirectory\fR for rotation. The \fIdirectory\fR |
| +is assumed to be relative to the directory holding the log file unless |
| +an absolute path name is specified. When this option is used all old |
| +versions of the log end up in \fIdirectory\fR. This option may be |
| overridden by the \fBnoolddir\fR option. |
| |
| .TP |
| -- |
| 2.24.0 |
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