Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on debian-user: >I think many of us would like to have emlog >(http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/emlog/) in a .deb file.
The web page says: emlog is a Linux kernel module that makes it easy to access the most recent (and only the most recent) output from a process. It works just like "tail -f" on a log file, except that the storage required never grows. This can be useful in embedded systems where there isn't enough memory or disk space for keeping complete log files, but the most recent debugging messages are sometimes needed (e.g., after an error is observed). The emlog kernel module implements simple character device driver. The driver acts like a named pipe that has a finite, circular buffer. The size of the buffer is easily configurable. As more data is written into the buffer, the oldest data is discarded. A process that reads from an emlog device will first read the existing buffer, then see new text as it's written, similar to monitoring a log file using "tail -f". Version 0.30 of emlog (released March 1, 2001) should work under just about any Linux kernel in the 2.x series, including 2.4. emlog is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL); see the file COPYING (in the distribution) for details. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
