Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:12:17 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyclic filesystem (WAS: Re: truss, trace ??) Message-ID: <199701140742.SAA26993@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199701140730.IAA12755@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Jan 14, 97 08:30:30 am"
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Mikael Karpberg stands accused of saying: > According to Michael Smith: > > Mikael Karpberg stands accused of saying: > > > > > > I for one couldn't care less how good the implementation is. I would just > > > like a nice efficient way of making any logfile max out at a certain size, > > > > 'man newsyslog' > > Huh? "No manual entry for newsyslog". I must say, though, that I just run > 2.1.6, if that makes a difference. Er, yes. You should be posting on the 'old farts' mailing list 8) Seriously, newsyslog is a 2.2-ism; basically it takes care of the issue you've raised in a low-overhead fashion suitable for logfiles. > /Mikael -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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