Bug 115486

	As it stands, newsyslog(8) provides for optional compression for
	rotated files.

	However, that compression only takes place for the newly-created
	".0" file.

	Artis Caune <Artis.Caune@latnet.lv> suggested (in -hackers@)
	that providing an ability to defer the compression to the
	".1" file might be useful for certain applications, such
	as apache.

	Dirk GOUDERS <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> followed up,
	suggesting the use of the "0" flag, which is an enhancement
	available in another implementation of newsyslog(8).

	I mentioned that while this might be useful, it would still fall
	short of something I needed to do at work recently: leave the
	newest N rotated log files uncompressed, while compressing the
	others.

	After a small amount of additional discussion, Dirk volunteered
	to supply patches; I volunteered to test (and later, to hack the
	man page).

	Dirk supplied the patches; I tested to my satisfaction, and
	attacked the man page.  The attached patches are the result.

Fix: Apply the following patches in /usr/src/usr.sbin/newsyslog,
	then make  && make install.  That done, the "generation number"
	of the rotated file that is to be compressed may be specified in
	the "flags" field of a newsyslog.conf entry:

How-To-Repeat: 	Try to figure out  how to get newsyslog(8) to only compress a
	rotated log file if it exceeds a certain "age" (or "generation
	number").  If you figure out a way, please document it. :-}