Re: CLOG support in syslogd

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:41 PM +0200 10/28/04, Emiel Kollof wrote:
> Op donderdag 28 oktober 2004, schreef Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai:
>  > -On [20041028 02:52], Scott Ullrich (geekgod@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>  > > 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.
>  >
> >  How is this different from the size column in /etc/newsyslog.conf?
>
> newsyslog is run from cronjob and can not ensure that the log
> size stays below  the value in newsyslogd.conf. AFAICT this can.

If I recall correctly, Wes Peters was interested in doing something
similar with syslogd in FreeBSD.  The one thing I'd suggest is that
you still let newsyslog do the file rotation.  I did had some new
features to newsyslog to help with this, but I don't think Wes ever
made the matching changes to syslogd.  He might have made the changes
to the 5.x-branch, but never MFC'ed them into 4.x.  I did MFC my
changes to newsyslog.

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