From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 19 14:27:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11AD337B407 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8492 invoked by uid 100); 19 Oct 2001 21:27:05 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15312.39593.445092.171109@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:27:05 -0500 To: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" Cc: , Subject: RE: Circular log patches for syslog In-Reply-To: References: <20011019110440.A4344@pc04.ipc-kallmuenz.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse types: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Wullinger [mailto:wullinger@ipc-fabautomation.com] > > Subject: Re: Circular log patches for syslog > > > > Just to spoil the thread: > > > > Shouldn't things like this be available as additional package, > > so that the base system supplies only "bas(e)ic functionality > > an everything else should be available as packages only? > > I would certainly be glad if these patches were incorporated into FreeBSD > proper, just to eliminate the need to track future changes to syslogd and > produce new (possibly buggy) patches. However, it is not clear that this > feature is of wide enough usefulness to warrant that. > > Since it requires both a patch to an existing system utility and a new > utility, it doesn't fit the package metaphor very well either. I almost commented on this one earlier - there's a utility in ports called "flog" which I use to avoid your general problem - that of running out of space on the logging device. It's not as nice a solution as you've got, though, so I skipped it. However, there are lots of system utilities that have replacements in the ports tree. In particular, there are at least two syslog daemons, one of which - msyslog - supports modules for input and output processing. Possibly this functionality could be done as an output module for msyslog, and that bundled as a port. Or even given back to the msyslog project. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message