On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Suriya Narayanan M S wrote:
> Hi all,
> The following program writes 2 messages to
> syslog
> /********** Begin code ***********/
> #include <syslog.h>
> int main()
> {
> openlog("Test of syslog",0,0);
> syslog(LOG_EMERG,"Hello World\n");
> syslog(LOG_EMERG,"Good Bye World\n");
> closelog();
> return 0;
> }
> /**********End code ***************/
>
> If someone executes this program repeatedly
> of from a loop, syslog would become too large.
> Is something wrong? Can access to syslog
> be restrcted?
perhaps you can build some sort of a test in your program so the program
doesn't "flood" the syslog. I've some messages in my syslog: "last
message repeated n times". Maybe something like that is what you're
looking for?
HTH
--
Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux jos(@)lemmerling(.net)
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