On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an > emerge, goto /etc/make.conf & set (dirname to taste) > > PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs > > which will add 2 new files to that dir for each emerge you do. > > NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is > limited.
Gzipping them saves a lot of space, i do it from a cron job
$ cat /etc/cron.daily/portagelogs
#!/bin/bash
for f in $(portageq envvar PORT_LOGDIR)/*.log; do
gzip -f $f 2>/dev/null || echo "Failed to gzip $f"
done
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Neil Bothwick
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