From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 22:16:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645DB16A401; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E386343D46; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:16:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k2UMGOHY001011; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:16:25 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0603301406p263b244fy80a115cca685d37f@mail.gmail.com> References: <200603302104.k2UL4qF7086165@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060330214216.GC86967@funkthat.com> <70e8236f0603301406p263b244fy80a115cca685d37f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:16:23 -0500 To: "Joao Barros" , "John-Mark Gurney" From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, "Christian S.J. Peron" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:16:27 -0000 At 11:06 PM +0100 3/30/06, Joao Barros wrote: >On 3/30/06, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > I'd be cool if there was a log entry that logged the fact > > that we couldn't write entries for a time due to no space > > on the device, so that going back through the logs, you > > could understand why there was a big gap... > >I like the idea , and for those of us that get paranoid with >logs 2 lines like this would really be nice: > >- Logging stopped at 2006-03-29 8:00:01 due to lack of disk space. >- Logging resumed at 2006-03-29 23:00:01 > >Of course the 2nd line has an automatic timestamp but it would >be really nice to know when logging started to fail. > >note: the examples were just to show the idea not the format. Include a count of the lines which were not logged. Eg: Logging resumed at 2006-03-29 23:00:01, but 1200 lines were not logged -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA