In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Denys Vlasenko) wrote:
> *From:* Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected], [email protected] > *Date:* Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:12:38 +0100 > > On Thursday 20 January 2011 14:43, David Collier wrote: > > I've installed busybox svlogd > > > > Can I ask which features of the config file it supports, if any? > > > > #ssize > > # > > sets the maximum file size of current when svlogd should rotate > > # the current log file to size bytes. > > # Default is 1000000. If size is zero, svlogd doesn't rotate > > log # files. You should set size to at least (2 * len). > > #nnum > > # > > sets the number of old log files svlogd should maintain to num. > > # If svlogd sees more that num old log files in log after log > > file # rotation, it deletes the oldest one. > > # Default is 10. If num is zero, svlogd doesn't remove old > > log files. > > #Nmin > > # > > sets the minimum number of old log files svlogd should maintain # > > to > > min. > > # min must be less than num. > > # If min is set, and svlogd cannot write to current because > > the # filesystem is full, > > # and it sees more than min old log files, > > # it deletes the oldest one. > > #ttimeout > > # > > sets the maximum age of the current log file when svlogd should > > # rotate the current log file to timeout seconds. > > # If current is timeout seconds old, and is not empty, svlogd > > # forces log file rotation. > > #!processor > > # > > tells svlogd to feed each recent log file through processor > > # (see above) on log file rotation. > > # By default log files are not processed. > > #ua.b.c.d[:port] > > # tells svlogd to transmit the first len characters > > of selected log > > # messages to the IP address a.b.c.d, port number port. > > # If port isn't set, the default port for syslog is used (514). > > # len can be set through the -l option, see below. > > # If svlogd has trouble sending udp packets, > # it > > > writes error messages to the log directory. > > # Attention: logging through udp is unreliable, > > # and should be used in private networks only. > > #Ua.b.c.d[:port] > > # is the same as the u line above, but the log messages are no > > # longer written to the log directory, > > # but transmitted through udp only. > > > > # Error messages from svlogd concerning sending udp packages > still # go to the log directory. > > Yes except sending over network Thank you. Can I suggest adding a line to the help which says something like: The size, num, min, timeout and processor features of the config file are supported. TVM David > > -- > vda > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
