Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Wullinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Subject: Re: Circular log patches for syslog
> >
> > Just to spoil the thread:
> >
> > Shouldn't things like this be available as additional package,
> > so that the base system supplies only "bas(e)ic functionality
> > an everything else should be available as packages only?
>
> I would certainly be glad if these patches were incorporated into FreeBSD
> proper, just to eliminate the need to track future changes to syslogd and
> produce new (possibly buggy) patches. However, it is not clear that this
> feature is of wide enough usefulness to warrant that.
>
> Since it requires both a patch to an existing system utility and a new
> utility, it doesn't fit the package metaphor very well either.
I almost commented on this one earlier - there's a utility in ports
called "flog" which I use to avoid your general problem - that of
running out of space on the logging device. It's not as nice a
solution as you've got, though, so I skipped it.
However, there are lots of system utilities that have replacements in
the ports tree. In particular, there are at least two syslog daemons,
one of which - msyslog - supports modules for input and output
processing.
Possibly this functionality could be done as an output module for
msyslog, and that bundled as a port. Or even given back to the msyslog
project.
<mike
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