[Cialug] Command output logging

[Nicolai]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 04:37:27PM -0600, Kenneth Younger wrote:

> I know of logrotate for log rotation, but is there a well known program
> that handles logging of arbitrary output data? (file naming (file.log.2,
> file.log.3, etc.), redirecting to new file every 100MB, etc.) Maybe
> logrotate can do this and I don't even know it...

multilog from djb's daemontools package does exactly this (and more).
I've been using it all over the place for ages.  It's REALLY nice.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Nicolai