Lower HISTORY limit to 25 for scripts to create multiple directories

This patch lowers HISTORY value limit from 28 to 25. When HISTORY value
is greater than 25 then sa1 script creates a month-by-month directory
structure in /var/log/sa to save datafiles.
This value guarantees that we will always have a full history and that
no files will be overwritten unintentionally.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien GODARD <sysstat@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 11e7d32da7faeaffe59f3f5e293f8f92142ecb35..f569cbcb64e5664a1ecbe06fe8f5dfeb77d1437a 100644 (file)
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ By default sar saves its data in the standard system activity data file,
 the /var/log/sa/sa<DD> file, where <DD> is the current day in the month.
 To prevent sar from overwriting any existing files, just set the variable
 HISTORY in /etc/sysconfig/sysstat to the number of days during which data
-must be kept. When this variable has a value greater than 28, sa1 script
+must be kept. When this variable has a value greater than 25, sa1 script
 uses a month-by-month directory structure; datafiles are named YYYYMM/saDD
 and the script maintains links to these datafiles to mimic the standard
 sar datafile structure.

diff --git a/man/sysstat.in b/man/sysstat.in
index 17357c4df64c144de676b40db08983012d1b73d0..a9e6455dd052b3049fa921da4004b4aa918c74b5 100644 (file)
--- a/man/sysstat.in
+++ b/man/sysstat.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH SYSSTAT 5 "AUGUST 2013" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
+.TH SYSSTAT 5 "MAY 2014" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
 .SH NAME
 sysstat \- sysstat configuration file.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ days will be removed by the
 .BR sa2 (8)
 shell script.
 Data files and reports are normally saved in the @SA_DIR@ directory,
-but if HISTORY is greater than 28, the scripts use a tree of directories under
+but if HISTORY is greater than 25, the scripts use a tree of directories under
 @SA_DIR@.
 
 .TP

diff --git a/sysstat.sysconfig.in b/sysstat.sysconfig.in
index 25cc6734d06de4cbde658d66ebc1e549e5d576f3..4d519cd0f5a66ae09c6d6b954661978edde4a7ad 100644 (file)
--- a/sysstat.sysconfig.in
+++ b/sysstat.sysconfig.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # @PACKAGE_NAME@-@PACKAGE_VERSION@ configuration file.
 
 # How long to keep log files (in days).
-# If value is greater than 28, then log files are kept in
+# If value is greater than 25, then log files are kept in
 # multiple directories, one for each month.
 HISTORY=@HISTORY@