Re: CLOG support in syslogd

["Erik P. Skaalerud" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Ullrich wrote:
> Would anyone be opposed to me merging in CLOG support?
>
> This would allow someone to set the size of a log file and syslogd would 
> automatically keep the file size from growing larger than specified. 
> This is useful for embedded system applications and could even be useful 
> for system administrators if they wish to keep their log files at a 
> certain size.
>
> I should note that this is not intrusive to normal operations since one 
> would need to specify their logging filename somthing like this:
>
> *            %/var/log/system.log
>
> The URL for addition information is: http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd/
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott

I like the idea of the function, but someone should take a deep look at 
the code and verify that its clean. It also looks like they havent done 
anything with the patch since february 2001, wich is kind of getting old :-)

-Erik