Re: CLOG support in syslogd

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:39 PM -0400 10/28/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 2:41 PM +0200 10/28/04, Emiel Kollof wrote:
> > Op donderdag 28 oktober 2004, schreef Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai:
> >  > -On [20041028 02:52], Scott Ullrich (geekgod@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >  > > This would allow someone to set the size of a log file and syslogd
> >  > > would automatically keep the file size from growing larger than
> >  > > specified.
> >  >
> > >  How is this different from the size column in /etc/newsyslog.conf?
> >
> > newsyslog is run from cronjob and can not ensure that the log
> > size stays below  the value in newsyslogd.conf. AFAICT this can.
>
> If I recall correctly, Wes Peters was interested in doing something
> similar with syslogd in FreeBSD.

After re-reading the original message in this thread, I realize that
I misunderstood what the change was.  This is not the same idea as
the one Wes was thinking of for syslog in FreeBSD.

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