From owner-freebsd-small Thu Oct 18 17:44:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0665837B407 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amy (216-99-218-147.dsl.aracnet.com [216.99.218.147]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9J0iI418294; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:44:18 -0700 Message-ID: <01c901c15837$2b7de100$6401a8c0@longs.org> From: "Paul W Long" To: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Circular log patches for syslog Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:44:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~brucem/pico_notes.htm helped me out. -pwl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" To: "Mike Barcroft" ; "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" Cc: 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 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