Re: [gentoo-embedded] Is a Logger needed for an embedded sys?

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 09:36 -0400, Lee Azzarello wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 17:41 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 11:17 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > >
> > > Somekind of logratating make you save space. I dont know if that goes
> > > automatically in busybox or if you need to ron logrotate from a cronjob.
> >
> > Well, with the point of embedded being saving on writes, don't think
> > saving space is the main issue. But Thanks for all your insights
>
> Many network appliances log a little to RAM with a circular utility,
> overwriting the oldest logs when the allocated memory is used up, along
> with the option to send everything to a remote syslog server. My network
> appliance of choice, m0n0wall, uses the FreeBSD syslogd with circular
> logging (clog).
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/software.php
>
> Is there a circular logging utility in Portage? Is the clog patch to
> syslogd trivial to apply? I'd be curious if anyone on this list has some
> stories with circular logging.

Dunno... but busybox's syslogd has it.

-C [size(KiB)]  Log to a circular buffer (read the buffer using logread)

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