Hello Eric, On Mon, July 16, 2007 2:45 pm, eric rosel wrote: > Hi Marvin, > > "...logging to a USB flash drive when needed". I > guess that would depend on when exactly is "when > needed". Once you define that, you just have to whip > up a short script to wait for that event, swap your > /etc/syslog.conf with one that specifies logging to a > USB flash drive, mount the flash drive, and then > restart the syslog daemon. Ofcourse it would be > advisable to make a similar script to switch back to > normal logging once the "when not needed" event > occurs.
A production system that runs during its peak hours and suddenly the systems administrator decided to get logs out from the running system. I prefer that no daemon must be restarted as much as possible with this mechanism. VoIP related technologies are the major part of this system. Thank you. Marvin _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
