> Moreover, if you go and look at follow-log-directories you can see an additional benefit that it very efficiently skips its cursors over old files without having to look at their i-nodes because it knows that the filename is guaranteed to be a timestamp at or after the last log entry in the file.

Thanks, that's two thing I've missed (because I never used it, I guess ..): This optimization and follow-log-directories+export-to-rsyslog which was introduced at a time I wasn't looking :)

> Furthermore, if you go and read the cyclog manual, you'll find out why using the w permission bit had problems. (-:

:) Indeed, thanks.

> 1.41 is building up changes, by the way.

Thanks! And since I've missed follow-log-directories (and export-to-rsyslog) before, maybe there's another tool I've missed that would make shipping log directories more efficient? I'm concerned with very-low-bandwidth, very-intermittently-connected servers in which rsync is a godsend and e.g. rsyslog and friends proved much less reliable and efficient; And the renaming of "current" makes it miss the fact that it already has an (almost complete) copy of said file under a different name.

Thanks again!