Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:09:07 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyclic filesystem (WAS: Re: truss, trace ??) Message-ID: <199701152309.XAA14982@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:13:14 %2B1030." <199701140343.OAA22707@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> 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'
Now all we need is an O_REOPEN ! The problem with newsyslog is that the
writer has to be willing to access() the file, and close() and open() on
failure. Either that or you've got to make it -HUP friendly. Either way, the
writer has to co-operate.
With the cyclic filesystem, the writer can write forever and never run it out
of space.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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