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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:45:31 -0800
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
To:        Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Wesley Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/host specifications)
Message-ID:  <20030213174531.GZ83215@roark.gnf.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030213001845.GA85036@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
References:  <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <200302111430.03156.wes@softweyr.com> <20030213001845.GA85036@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:18:45AM +0100, Thomas Quinot wrote:
> Le 2003-02-11, Wesley Peters ?crivait :
>=20
> > mail.info                                       /var/log/maillog G 4M
> > lpr.info                                        /var/log/lpd-errs 256K
> > local3.*                                        /var/log/foo B 1K
> > ftp.*                                           /var/log/ftp B 1M
>=20
> I think this can be achieved without modifying syslogd. You can achieve
> the same effect by using an appropriate program as the log destination
> (think Apache's rotatelogs).
>=20
> Eg:
>   local3.*	|/usr/local/sbin/loglimit /var/log/foo B 1K
>=20
> Where loglimit would copy stdin to the named file, rotating it when
> appropriate.

I personally like this solution better. Sure you get the overhead of a
couple more processes running, but it falls back on each tool doing one
specific job. This keeps our syslog.conf consistent with others and it
should be relatively easy to implement a log roller (or steal one).

-gordon

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