Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:44:06 -0700 From: "Paul W Long" <paul@longs.org> To: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" <jdw_list@wwwi.com> Cc: <small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Circular log patches for syslog Message-ID: <01c901c15837$2b7de100$6401a8c0@longs.org> References: <NCBBLFMIMDJFEFKJLLCCEECICEAA.jdw_list@wwwi.com>
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http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/pico_notes.htm helped me out. -pwl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" <jdw_list@wwwi.com> To: "Mike Barcroft" <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" <jdw_list@wwwi.com> Cc: <small@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday 18 October 2001 17:36 Subject: RE: Circular log patches for syslog > > Thanks for the suggestion! > > >From the PicoBSD page (http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/), I had concluded > that PicoBSD was pretty well moribund. Reviewing the past few weeks of the > freebsd-small list, it seems I was in error. > > We're currently running 4.3-RELEASE on Advantech hw because at the time > PicoBSD looked like a non-start. We desperately need to get the flash > requirement down. > > Is there documentation somewhere that explains the connection between > FreeBSD-4.x and PicoBSD, and how to get from the one to the other? > > I apologize if this is a stupidly obvious question and I'm the only person > left on earth who doesn't know the answer. > > Jeff > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Barcroft [mailto:mike@FreeBSD.org] > > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:30 PM > > To: Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse > > Cc: small@FreeBSD.org > > Subject: Re: Circular log patches for syslog > > > > > > [Moved to -small.] > > > > Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse <jdw_list@wwwi.com> writes: > > > 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. > > > > This sounds really interesting. It would probably be a good candidate > > for PicoBSD. > > > > Best regards, > > Mike Barcroft > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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