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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

 
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Patrick Wirth
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Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

Hi,

Is there any chance at all that someone over at HP will decide to build and package new versions of Logrotate?

Version 2.5 is ANCIENT (more than 7 yrs old)!!! Tons of improvements since then.

So, if it's so important as a system administration tool and always referenced by ITRC people for log handling, maybe it should be upgraded and provided by HP in some fashion.

Perhaps someone could post it to the porting site for the various HP platforms?

Or is it some licensing issue with Debian that is preventing this?
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

Shalom,

This is an open source product. Anybody that wants can take the current Linux source code and attempt a HP-UX compile.

I think it would make sense if HP took it and integrated it into the Internet Express package, but my sources say nothing on the topic.

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Steven E Protter
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dirk dierickx
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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

as always, hp does little to make the life of the admin better, at least not were it matters.
userland on hpux is not dinosaur, it's even older.
Steven E. Protter
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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

You know, Patrick and Dirk, maybe HP just didn't think to port the product to Internet Express.

If enough people ask, they'll probably do it. I've seen HP go to great lengths to make me happy. Trust me, making me happy is not an easy thing to do.

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Steven E Protter
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Court Campbell
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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

I have been using the following in place of logrotate on HPUX:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/perl-logrotate/

I too ask myself why certain things do not get ported. I am still waiting for an updated cups depot. I did purchase the software from esp, but I would have thought that it would have been made available from HP by now.
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paolo barila
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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

Hi,

try logrotate-3.7.4 source from fedora

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/source/SRPMS

then

linuxbox# rpm2cpio logrotate-3.7.4.src.rpm | cpio -idv

and follow README.HPUX


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Patrick Wirth
Frequent Advisor

Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

Hi Paolo,

Yes. I tried with the README.HPUX instructions. It makes nice core dumps. I currently don't have time to investigate the dependancy issue with popt package.

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Steven E. Protter
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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

You could event something really good.

To complete compile you will need to compile the source for any dependencies, otherwise all you will get will be core dumps.

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Steven E Protter
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Patrick Wirth
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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur


ya. great.

Now, what if I have a few dozen 11i, 11.23 and itanium systems. Do I get to build a separate logrotate, and popt on each host?

Do I get to install the latest gnu build environment and linux compatibility libraries on all the systems too?

The solution is looking more like a howto build your own package from source code...

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Heironimus
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Re: Logrotate 2.5 on HPUX is practically a dinosaur

I'm guessing that HP doesn't come out and compile their software on each server for you, unless you're paying them a really impressive amount of money. What they do, and what you can do, is compile on one machine for each platform and copy the binaries everywhere else. I would guess that you can probably run the binaries from 11.11 on 11.23, and the PA binaries may work through Aries on IA64 servers.

Last year I built a current version of logrotate on HP-UX. I vaguely remember that I ignored most of the HP-specific steps in the documentation because they were out of date. I think libpopt was the only dependency I compiled.