On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Kyle Cordes <k...@kylecordes.com> wrote:
> I am sure there is a good use for some aspect of the -w 0 feature; the
> part I don't think there is a good use for, is writing 70,000 entries
> per minute to syslog, or for trying to connect in a tight loop for 12
> hours. I am sure there is a way for it to do what you need it to do,
> without doing those other things.
You may be right. On the other hand, powerful tools *often* provide
ways of shooting oneself in the foot. One might make a similar
argument to yours for the ability to purge resources. The following
puppet snippet will probably cause you no end of headaches:
resources { "package": purge => true; }
I have yet to meet the daemon that couldn't be mis-configured to fill
up as much log as you allow it to; I don't think that is a good
argument for removing functionality. I fight "dumbing down" tools
wherever I can, and this seems like one of those cases. The correct
way to handle this case is to remember that if you don't rotate your
logs correctly, a rogue daemon will fill up your filesystem, and act
accordingly.
Your complaint is valid; this should not be the default behavior, and
it *isn't* -- your beef should be with the package maintainer who
misconfigured the tool, not with the tool itself.
--Paul
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