2009/6/30 Julien BLACHE <[email protected]>: > According to the mcelog documentation, cron is still the preferred way > to run mcelog. > > Given upstream still defaults to cron, I don't think I'm going to make > that change at this point, unless there are some very good arguments > in favor of the daemon mode.
Well, git master says in mcelog.8: The normal operating modi for mcelog are running as a regular cron job (traditional way, deprecated), running as a trigger directly executed by the kernel, or running as a daemon with the --daemon option. The main argument for daemon is reliability - you don't risk losing the last 5 minutes of events in case of a crash. Minor ones would be accurate timestamping, and slightly less crontab log spam. (Perhaps I miss something.) The trigger mode would be also nice, I guess, but it requires kernel 2.6.21. Which kernels does squeeze support on i386 and amd64? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
