From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 13 23:42:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA26933 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 23:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA26927 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 23:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id SAA26993; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:12:34 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701140742.SAA26993@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Cyclic filesystem (WAS: Re: truss, trace ??) In-Reply-To: <199701140730.IAA12755@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Jan 14, 97 08:30:30 am" To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:12:17 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[