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author | Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-05-08 22:29:28 +0000 |
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committer | Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-05-08 22:29:28 +0000 |
commit | 1a806a7a2969e89845cdb3c55aabd42b3fca592f (patch) | |
tree | d4427d7c47bd5bb6cae6e67901f95c855fdf4a4a /release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | |
parent | b082d39489c9792611562d96730a909b8c3ba79c (diff) | |
download | src-1a806a7a2969e89845cdb3c55aabd42b3fca592f.tar.gz src-1a806a7a2969e89845cdb3c55aabd42b3fca592f.zip |
New release notes: New newsyslog(8) features.
Submitted by: gad
Approved by: re (implicitly)
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=114848
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 6f0db676883d..927a088d7dfe 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -657,12 +657,46 @@ unless UFS1 is specifically requested with the <option>-O1</option> option.</para> - <para>&man.newsyslog.8; now supports a <literal>W</literal> flag - to force previously-started compression jobs for an entry (or + <para>&man.newsyslog.8; has a number of new features. Among them: + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>A <literal>W</literal> flag + forces previously-started compression jobs for an entry (or group of entries specified with the <literal>G</literal> flag) to finish before beginning a new one. This feature is designed to prevent system overloads caused by starting several compression jobs on big files simultaneously. &merged;</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>A <quote>default rotate action</quote>, to be used for + files specified for rotation but not specified in the + configuration file. &merged;</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>A <option>-s</option> command-line flag to disable + sending signals to processes when rotating + files. &merged;</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>A <literal>N</literal> configuration file flag to + indicate that no process needs to be signaled when + rotating a file. &merged;</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>A <literal>U</literal> configuration file flag to + specify that a process group (rather than a single + process) should be signaled when rotating + files. &merged;</para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </para> <para>&man.nsdispatch.3; is now thread-safe and implements support for Name Service Switch (NSS) modules. NSS modules may be |