[PATCH] gnu: Add rottlog.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

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It `builds' and installs...now to figure out how to configure and hook
it up with mcron and how to run mcron.

Also, its bash scripts.  Well, if it works...


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From 93bdc5b5bf615d4641897c2058b303554c081062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:33:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add rottlog.

* gnu/packages/logging.scm (rottlog): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/logging.scm | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/logging.scm b/gnu/packages/logging.scm
index 68af09e..61fe85d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/logging.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/logging.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -22,7 +23,9 @@
   #:use-module (guix utils)
   #:use-module (guix download)
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
-  #:use-module (gnu packages))
+  #:use-module (gnu packages)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages linux)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo))
 
 (define-public log4cpp
   (package
@@ -45,3 +48,31 @@ IDSA and other destinations.  It is modeled after the Log4j Java library,
 staying as close to their API as is reasonable.")
     (home-page "http://log4cpp.sourceforge.net/")
     (license license:lgpl2.1+)))
+
+(define-public rottlog
+  (package
+    (name "rottlog")
+    (version "0.72.2")
+    (inputs `(("util-linux" ,util-linux) ; cal
+              ("texinfo" ,texinfo)))
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/rottlog/rottlog-" version
+                                  ".tar.gz"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "0751mb9l2f0jrk3vj6q8ilanifd121dliwk0c34g8k0dlzsv3kd7"))
+              (patches (search-patches "rottlog.patch"))))
+    (arguments
+     '(#:configure-flags
+       (list (string-append "ROTT_ETCDIR=" %output "/etc/rottlog"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (synopsis "The GNU log management facility")
+    (description
+     "GNU Rot[t]log is designed to simplify administration of systems that
+generate large numbers of log files.  It allows automatic rotation,
+compression, and archiving of logs.  It also mails reports to the system
+administrator.  Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, in
+user-defined days, or when it becomes too large.")
+    (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/rottlog/")
+    (license license:gpl3+)))
-- 
2.8.4


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