shorten dmesg.log

2011-08-19 Thread Manuel Hachtkemper
Hello everyone, FAI always saves the whole dmesg output on softupdates. This results in errors/unknown lines (error.log) even if those kernel messages were sent long ago, but you probably already known about them and you don't want to be disturbed by these old messages every time again. (Of

Re: shorten dmesg.log

2011-08-19 Thread Edgar Fuß
Would you mind taking a look at the logtail patch that's been sitting in experimental for almost forever already? I don't see how this can possibly work on something like the kernel message buffer. Its contents will rotate once it runs full so the offset noted by logtail will no longer be