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by: poindexter FORTRAN - Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:23 UTC

I just noticed this in my echocfg.exe program after an upgrade:

Synchronet FidoNet Config v3.20 c:\sbbs\ctrl\sbbse
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I was trying to get logrotate set up - it looks like echocfg can do its own log
rotation now, is this correct?
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by: Digital Man - Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:54 UTC

To: poindexter FORTRAN
Re: echocfg log rotation?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Fri Mar 31 2023 12:23 pm

> I was trying to get logrotate set up - it looks like echocfg can do its own
> log rotation now, is this correct?

Correct. It's doesn't compress/archive them, but yeah, it'll rotate them (and delete the old ones).
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Subject	Author
echocfg log rotation?	poindexter FORTRAN
echocfg log rotation?	Digital Man