Hi, What I'm wondering is how to set a translator on a file when the file is created. So here is an example /hurd/crash could dump into /var/crash, but a mux translator would be set on /var/crash so a dump of the proc server would be /var/crash/core-proc but core-proc would be a multiple firmlink to /var/db/crash/core-proc-<timestamp> . This would also be the same sort of setup as /var/log so /var/log/gopherd.log would be firmlink to /var/db/log/gopherd.log-<timestamp> . Setting a system up this way seems to obsolete logrotate.
Another idea for core dumps would be if a sysadmin/developer only wants to keep the last x number of dumps around, the muliple firmlink could run sequencially through x number of files already created and simply overwrite them as a core dump would usually overwrite the last core dump. Within this rant, there is actually a question: Will hostmux allow this or will a real filemux translator need to be written? I don't think usermux can do what I am looking for here but I could be wrong. More mux rant: Would a use of usermux be for /proc, in that usermux is set on /proc starting a procfs for each user, so /proc/jim contains a procfs of only my processes. Does the user actually have to exist or could the procfs assume if the user doesn't and is called system or GNU_Hurd_rulz or whatever, that it should act like a system wide procfs like neals procfs acts now? note: the patch I posted to bug-hurd for a multiple firmlink doesn't actually work for dates, I don't know why. ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone refering this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
