On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-04-14 13:29 GMT+01:00 Peter Bonivart <[email protected]>: >> should we use syslog to be more resilient against a new >> run erasing valuable logs? > > How much data can be put in a syslog message? I was thinking about > something like this:
Isn't it only 1K or similar? > "running pkgutil; if this invocation runs, you can repeat it as > follows: /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 ..." > > This way you can go to syslog, and run pkgutil again to reproduce the problem. > > Or maybe an own pkgutil log in with the same information. It could be > a long line with lots of packages, but it's 4k packages max, so still > manageable. It wouldn't crash your text editor. I think we will probably break the syslog limit so a dedicated file would be better to avoid that risk, logrotate can take care of maintaining it.
