Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:27:18AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > lpd doesn't check the spool dir by itself. gdm and XFree86 are a must I > > assume :-) Any cron jobs that run more often than every few minutes? > > does cron not check /etc/cron.d often? i know you can drop files in > there and cron will use them without restarting it so it must check > this somehow...
According to the manpage it does so every minute, and I haven't found a way around this so it could be the showstopper. > > Seems like syslogd doesn't provide such an option... Log less, or log to a > > remote host. > > it sort of does, from the man page: > > You may prefix each entry with the minus ``-'' sign to > omit syncing the file after every logging. Note that you > might lose information if the system crashes right behind > a write attempt. Nevertheless this might give you back > some performance, especially if you run programs that use > logging in a very verbose manner. > > referring to the file path your logging to. some entries in the > default syslog.conf are already set this way. turning off the -- MARK -- > thing would probably help to. Thanks for the suggestions! Michel -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
