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Patrick Williamsc124f4f2015-09-15 14:41:29 -05001From e0b0fe30e9c49234994a20a86aacfaf80e690087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
3Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:14:37 -0800
4Subject: [PATCH] Update the manual
5
6Update the manual for rotating on different filesystems.
7
8Upstream-Status: Pending
9
10Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
11---
12 logrotate.8 | 10 ++++------
13 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
14
15diff --git a/logrotate.8 b/logrotate.8
16index e4e5f48..84407d0 100644
17--- a/logrotate.8
18+++ b/logrotate.8
19@@ -405,12 +405,10 @@ Do not rotate the log if it is empty (this overrides the \fBifempty\fR option).
20
21 .TP
22 \fBolddir \fIdirectory\fR
23-Logs are moved into \fIdirectory\fR for rotation. The \fIdirectory\fR must be
24-on the same physical device as the log file being rotated, unless \fBcopy\fR,
25-\fBcopytruncate\fR or \fBrenamecopy\fR option is used. The \fIdirectory\fR
26-is assumed to be relative to the directory holding the log file
27-unless an absolute path name is specified. When this option is used all
28-old versions of the log end up in \fIdirectory\fR. This option may be
29+Logs are moved into \fIdirectory\fR for rotation. The \fIdirectory\fR
30+is assumed to be relative to the directory holding the log file unless
31+an absolute path name is specified. When this option is used all old
32+versions of the log end up in \fIdirectory\fR. This option may be
33 overridden by the \fBnoolddir\fR option.
34
35 .TP
36--
371.7.9.5
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