From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 18 14:34:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fortinbras.sanjose.wwwi.com (fortinbras.sanjose.wwwi.com [199.1.92.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F53437B409 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:34:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from polonius (dhcp105.houston.wwwi.com [199.1.94.105]) by fortinbras.sanjose.wwwi.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f9ILY5H20997 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:34:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" To: Subject: Circular log patches for syslog Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:32:09 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, While working on another project, I made some patches to syslogd to support circular logfiles: http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd/ The syslogd patch includes changes to the man page to reflect the new usage. I don't know if this is useful to anyone else, but it came in handy for me on a small-footprint embedded project that couldn't afford to let logs grow unbounded. We have been using this in house without problems for awhile now. Any feedback on this would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message