[ARGUS] log file roll-over

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Russell, et al,
   The ra* programs understand gzip and bzip2 and compress
formats, so you can a lot of different types.  We don't use
zlib, we detect the file type on the fly from the first x bytes
and then call the appropriate decompressor using a popen() call.

Carter


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Russell Fulton
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:45 PM
To: John Nagro
Cc: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: [ARGUS] log file roll-over

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 08:38, John Nagro wrote:
> So youre saying in general the tools can read the compressed version???
>
absolutely, I made that patch at least 5 years ago.  My version assumed
you had gzip installed but Carter may have changed it to use zlib by
now.  No special flags  needed figures out that the file is compressed
by itself.

Russell