From owner-freebsd-small Thu Oct 18 16:27:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from coffee.q9media.com (coffee.q9media.com [216.94.229.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F47637B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mike@localhost) by coffee.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9INTsr76709; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:29:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:29:54 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft To: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" Cc: small@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Circular log patches for syslog Message-ID: <20011018192954.B76549@coffee.q9media.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from jdw_list@wwwi.com on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:32:09PM -0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Moved to -small.] Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse writes: > While working on another project, I made some patches to syslogd to support > circular logfiles: > > http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd/ > > The syslogd patch includes changes to the man page to reflect the new usage. > > I don't know if this is useful to anyone else, but it came in handy for me > on a small-footprint embedded project that couldn't afford to let logs grow > unbounded. > > We have been using this in house without problems for awhile now. Any > feedback on this would be appreciated. This sounds really interesting. It would probably be a good candidate for PicoBSD. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message